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No One Diets on Thanksgiving.
Erma Bombeck
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Erma Bombeck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: April 22
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Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
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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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When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.
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Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!
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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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The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.
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My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
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Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.
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Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.
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Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.
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I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.
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I lost everything in the post-natal depression.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.
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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.
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Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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