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.

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

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.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.