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Erma Bombeck

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Erma Bombeck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: April 22
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Journalist
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Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
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I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.
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I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.
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Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.
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There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green.
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It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.
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I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.
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It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.
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I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.
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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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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 have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.
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There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
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If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.
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. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.
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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
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Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!
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In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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