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- Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
- My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
- 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.
- I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth.…
- When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the…
- Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who…
- It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
- With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield.
- 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…
- I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
- Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
- Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
- As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
- I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part…
- The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money,…
- One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies.
- All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
- The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money,…
- Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, No, thank you, to dessert that night. And for what!
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