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Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

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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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
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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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Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
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I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of go out and fulfill your dreams and be everything you were meant to be. But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.
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I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.
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Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.
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A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect.
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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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Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!
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There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.
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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
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When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty just adding water. Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.
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Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.
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I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
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