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It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

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
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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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Having a delivery covered by Medicare just isn't going to fly. It's too risky for a woman to put a baby down and not remember where she left it.
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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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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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It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.
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There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.
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Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
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A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
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Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
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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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Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
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No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
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My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!
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Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.
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Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.
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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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When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.
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