Cathy Guisewite Quotes

My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

I speak with my father about everything in my life.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

My family is probably too involved in my life because they are my best friends, but I love that.

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

Americans always talk about family love being unconditional, and I realized that I didn't feel that way.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

I'm exceptionally open with my own parents, and they're exceptionally open with me.

I always felt like there wasn't a blueprint for father-daughter relationships - for them or for us. Because what are they supposed to do with us, treat us like boys, or small women, or what? Father-daughter relationships are so unique from family to family, and I'd love to watch it explored more onstage.

I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had been her mother's confidante.

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

Me for Ma

I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.

My dad sacrificed his relationship with me so I'd be stronger for it. But I could never do it to my kids - I like to have a happy relationship with them.

I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.