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Erma Bombeck

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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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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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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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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