All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
ERMA BOMBECKKids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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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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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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