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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
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Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
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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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I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -- and he's a priest.
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Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!
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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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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.
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I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
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Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
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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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