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.

Guisewite frames cartooning not merely as personal success but as a profession whose rewards—creative autonomy, public reach, and long-term stability through syndication—should be accessible to more women. The quote acknowledges the historical underrepresentation of women in syndicated newspaper comics while rejecting the idea that the imbalance is inevitable or justified. By emphasizing that she “can’t think of any reason” the future won’t include more women, she implicitly points to structural barriers (gatekeeping, hiring norms, editorial assumptions about audience) as contingent rather than natural. The statement is both encouragement and prediction: it invites women to enter the field and asserts confidence that cultural and industry change will broaden who gets to be widely published.