"No self-respecting mother would run out of..." - Quote by Erma Bombeck
No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.
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“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”
“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 of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.”
“A small waist makes you tire easily.”
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“Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.”
“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”
“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
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“Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
“If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.”
“Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.”