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For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

Erma Bombeck

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Erma Bombeck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: April 22
Column Author
Journalist
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Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
Miniseries
Marriages
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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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If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.
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In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.
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I read one psychologist's theory that said, Never strike a child in your anger. When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.
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Children make your life important.
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not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.
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With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield.
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I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying Open! was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
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Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.
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I lost everything in the post-natal depression.
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With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.
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I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of go out and fulfill your dreams and be everything you were meant to be. But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.
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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
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Do I have to use my own money?
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
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