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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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I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
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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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Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.
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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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Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I couldn't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit. She understood.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
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Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.
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If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.
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You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.
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To say, Well, I write when I really get into it is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.
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There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.
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Written on her tombstone: I told you I was sick.
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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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When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.
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I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.
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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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