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"My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"
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"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
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"Animal welfare issues have always been important to me."
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"I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain."
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"The specifics of Cathy?s and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same."
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"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."
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"My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call."
Mother

"Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976."
Humor

"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

"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."
Mom

"Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip."
Woman

"I'm most proud of having created something that men never completely get."
Men
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