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

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.

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

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

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.

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

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.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

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

No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.

Self-doubt imprisons those that never overcome it.

I will take away your means of escape.

I realize parenting is hard and boring at times and a four-hour break would be super, but this is the job we signed up for. Some days it sucks, but most days it's great.

We could all have been killed -or worse, expelled.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Born free. Taxed to death.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

The most difficult part for me is feeling connected to the people that I love but always being on the go to different places.