"On the way to the delivery room,..." - Quote by Phyllis Diller
On the way to the delivery room, I almost changed my mind about having a baby. I wouldn't have found it so hard to go ahead with it if I had realized that having a baby was the only way I could ever become a grandmother.
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“The reason I'm not an alcoholic is I don't like to drink in front of the kids . . . and when you're away from them, who needs it?.”
“A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.”
“Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.”
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“A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.”
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“My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.”
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“And because I love this lifeI know I shall love death as wellThe child cries out whenFrom the right breast the motherTakes it away, in the very next momentTo find in the left oneIts consolation.”