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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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Erma Bombeck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: April 22
Column Author
Journalist
Writer
Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
Spontaneous
Surprise
Humor
Bits
Full
Unplanned
Wonderful
Unbridled
Comes
Outburst
Spontaneity

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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
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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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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 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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Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Myths that need clarification: Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach. False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.
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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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Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.
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Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
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