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- Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out…
- Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
- My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
- There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
- Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I…
- There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants…
- Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went…
- House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
- On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand…
- Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To…
- If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.
- For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the…
- No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.
- Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on…
- Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the lights…
- 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…
- Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on…
- Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on…
- When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
- 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…
- Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
- 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…
- It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.
- Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory,…
- 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,…
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