“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."”
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Erma Louise Bombeck was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became bestsellers. - Wikipedia
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“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."”
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“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”
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“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
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“Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate.”
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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 sla...”
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“Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.”
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“The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our r...”
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“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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“I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.”
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“What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?”
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“It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.”
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“I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.”
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“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
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“I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”
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“Housework can kill you if done right.”
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“Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.”
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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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“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”
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“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.”
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“It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.”
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