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Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.

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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Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to the day when breathing and raising a baby at the same time were incompatible.
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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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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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When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.
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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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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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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
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Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.
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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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Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
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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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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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My mother phones daily to ask, Did you just try to reach me? When I reply no, she adds, So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive, . . . and hangs up.
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I used everything you gave me.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.
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