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.
Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.
A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.
This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as ‘business calories’ so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.
After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I’ve never lost. Hope and weight.
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.
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.
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.
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
What happened to the good old days of “Woman as passive recipient?” What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?
Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
I’m most proud of having created something that men never completely get.
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
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.
Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you’ve already got.
I can’t tell my conscience from my insecurities.
Men date. Women have relationships.
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.
When you eat a carrot that is nothing but carrot it zooms through your system as a carrot. When you eat a piece of mass-produced carrot cake that contains 32 ingredients, your metabolism screeches to a halt while your body tries to figure out what all those things are that you just swallowed, and what it is supposed to do with them. Therefore, the problem isn’t “fat”, its piles of excess ingredients your body’s stacked on shelves and vowed to sort out later.