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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
Writer
Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
Marriages
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Longer
Literature
Lasts
Easy
Miniseries

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All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.
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Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?
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The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.
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Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.
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I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
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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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Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
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A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.
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I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.
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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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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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Never loan your car to anyone to whom you've given birth.
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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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When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
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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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When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.
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