Every day is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.
The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.
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.
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.
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.
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
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.
I’d love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
I’m more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
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.
My heart always belongs to the one who doesn’t want it.
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.
Now I’m searching for a slightly overweight, single, childless woman who doesn’t have a date and isn’t too depressing to be around. It’s getting harder to find a girlfriend than a boyfriend.
Men should come with instruction booklets.
Wake me up when I’m a size 5.
I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.
I’ve found it’s better to talk to the machine and hang up if I get the person.
I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They’ll turn away a mother full of advice, but they’ll never say no to one holding a mop.
Breaking up: It’s so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.