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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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"The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom."
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"I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom."
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"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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"I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in."
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"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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"One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes."
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"My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years."
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"My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them."
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"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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"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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"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

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

"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

"I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now."
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"The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin."
Change

"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

"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."
Mom

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

"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

"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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