Erma Bombeck - Family Quotes

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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.

Erma Bombeck

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children. When we began to 'rap,' 'feed into one another,' 'let things hang out' that mother didn't know about and would rather not.

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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

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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 think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own toys, if men don't have pockets in their pants, tougho.

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