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Cathy Guisewite

"Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy."

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"Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy."

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Amber Hurdle

"The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'"

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in."

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Amber Hurdle

"I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect."

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Amber Hurdle

"One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes."

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Amber Hurdle

"My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years."

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Amber Hurdle

"My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them."

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Amber Hurdle

"For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect."

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Cathy Guisewite
"I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think."

Children

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Cathy Guisewite
"I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married."

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Cathy Guisewite
"I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home."

Home

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Cathy Guisewite
"I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now."

Success

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Cathy Guisewite
"The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin."

Change

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Cathy Guisewite
"The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise."

Life

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Cathy Guisewite
"Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her."

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Cathy Guisewite
"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."

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Cathy Guisewite
"Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future."

Woman

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Cathy Guisewite
"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."

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