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The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Erma Bombeck
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I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
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My mind works . . . two boobs never get me a job.
Erma Bombeck
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Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.
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Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.
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The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, Could I get you your check? and we answered, How about the menu first?
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.
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Do I have to use my own money?
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It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.
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Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. What shall we name the other one? I smiled. She was not amused.
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In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.
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Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.
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My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.
Erma Bombeck
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