Erma Louise Bombeck

(25 votes)   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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(23 votes)   I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

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(9 votes)   There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

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(191 votes)   You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

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(120 votes)   It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.

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(120 votes)   It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

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(110 votes)   There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in

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(94 votes)   Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.

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(80 votes)   People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

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(74 votes)   We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

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(66 votes)   As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

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(62 votes)   I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.

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(60 votes)   Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.

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(25 votes)   Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.

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(24 votes)   Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.

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