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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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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
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"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."
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"What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous."
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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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"My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer."
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"My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity."
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"Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too."
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"But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck."
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"I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married."
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"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."
Success
"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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"A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have."
People
"The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping."
People
"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
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