Conference turris::womannotes-v2

    	"If you sit on cold cement, you will catch a cold in your ovaries."
    
    Ann

    Don't sit in a boy's lap while you are both wearing a wet bathing
    suit, you can get pregnant.

    Learn something about sports so that you'll be able to talk to boys.
    
    

	Two from my father about what to expect from life:

	Money: You make it - Government takes it.

	Work like horse - Get paid like pony.

					Tom_K

    
    
    "If you don't let your baby cry, his lungs won't develop.
     Furthermore, if you don't let him cry it out, you'll have
     a spoiled child.  Holding him too much will also result in
     a spoiled child."  (various 'experts')
    
    

       "boys will be boys"

    "If you lift anything too heavy, the strain will cause your uterus
    to fall out"
    
    (I was at the time lifting a 10 lb. bag of flour - that was supposedly
    too heavy)

    Anything worth doing is worth doing well!
    

    "If you cross your eyes, one day they will stay that way..."
    
    This innocent bit of advice caused no end of anguish when I was
    a youngster.  It would take me what seemed like hours to get to
    sleep each night because I was afraid I would inadvertently cross
    my eyes *right before* closing them to go to sleep and in total
    panic I would open them to make sure they were straight.  
    
    After months of panic I taught myself a little trick that seemed
    to help...after the lights were out I would look straight up at
    the ceiling, close my eyes *very* slowly (opening them to check
    a couple of times) and finally when I was pretty sure they were 
    not crossed, I would drift off to sleep.  ^^^^^^

    I lucked out and survived childhood with normal eyes, whew...
    
    Jodi-

    "You can't get pregnant the first time."
    
    --- jerry

    
    
    ALWAYS wear clean underwear, in case you have an accident/emergency
    you won't be embarrassed.

    Always look before you leap, for she who hesitates is lost.

It's just as easy to fall in love with a rich girl.
		-- I think my mom said this, but I don't think she was serious.


Martin.

and, apropos a previous note:

"Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well."
		-- Gordon Bell (ex-Dec engineering v.p.)

    When love knocks at the door, logic flies out the window...
    
    
    Love laughs at locksmiths...
    
    
    (sources unknown, proably the Oxford book of Quotations)
    
    -Jody
    

    "Always let him win." (at sports)
    

"Two brown-eyed people can't have a blue-eyed baby"

Something my poor, anguished, blue-eyed brother picked up from someplace.
Then one day when he came home from junior high-school he announced to
my mom (much to her surprise) that he found out he really wasn't adopted
and that 2 brown-eyed people really could have a blue-eyed baby.

Jenna

    Don't ever let a boy know you're smarter than he is, or he'll never
    date you again.  Boys don't like smart girls.
    
    (So *that's* why I didn't go out much in high school...)
    
    Barb

	Treat a girl as you would your own sister.

    
    	(I saw this over someones kitchen sink a long time ago...)
    
    	
    	It begins when you sink into his arms, 
    
    		and ends with your arms in the sink.....

    one that my mother-in-law and I share:
    
      "Cooking is Like Love.
    		Enter into it with abandon or not at all."
    
    
    I find cooking an adventure.
    She will cook if forced to at gun-point!
    
          Ann

    re: .11 Underwear and accidents
    
        I was in a auto accident that left me unconscious for a while
    and I woke up in the hospital ith nothing on but a hospital gown.
    My first thought was, where are my clothes, then it was WHAT UNDERWEAR
    WAS I WEARING???  To make matters worse I had amnesia and couldn't
    remember.
    
    ASP

    From my mother:
    
    If you never learn how to milk the cow, you'll never have to.
    
    The same advise was offered re. changing a flat tire.
    

    re .22
    My mother told me to never admit that I knew how to type (this when I
    was a high school student twenty yars ago) to a potential employer, but
    to learn how to type anyhow (I did).
    
    My mother, a musician and mathematician by training and ability, worked
    as a secretary-typist until I was born.  (Now she works as a violist!)

	Men/boys don't make passes at
	women/girls who wear glasses.

	Since my vision problem was not fixable with contacts I
	tried to get along outside of school without my glasses
	(even after graduation I would only wear them at work).

	_peggy
		(-)
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			Eye-makeup cover will many flaws
			When you can see them, that is.

    The three stages of a man's sex life:
    
    Tri - weekly
    
    Try - weekly
    
    Try - weakly
    
    (From ex husband) - Men want a lady on the street and a whore in
    bed.
    
    
    Love means you never have to say your sorry (HA)
    
    Louise

    
    When I was going through a very painful separation from my
    (now) ex-husband, my mother passed this one down from her
    mother,  "Time wounds all heels."
    
    In the same vein, "My true friends have always given me that
    supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneuos aversion for the
    man I loved."  -Colette
    
    And from Virgina Woolf - "I have lost friends, some by death...
    others by sheer inability to cross the street."
    
    Nanci

    I was years behind my peers in getting dates (let alone to
    1st, 2nd, etc. base) because I believed my mom when she told
    me "Nice girls don't _____ "   The blank space was filled in
    with everything from ". . .take calls after 9:00 p.m." to
    ". . .kiss on the first date." to ". . .'make out'" and a litany
    of others - virtually anything and everything that even hinted
    of, well, you know. . ."it".
    
    Steve
    

    An old bit from down home (Ga): "A whistling woman and a crowing
    hen always come to some bad end."
    
    I learned how to whistle before I was 6 and *love* to whistle.
    
    Never heard a hen crow, though.  
    
    Marilyn

 Once a man is unfaithful, he will always be that way...

    Re .28:
    
    I read that one in one of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books when I was
    a youngling, which means that that gem dates back to the mid 1800's.
    (The dates that the books take place).
    
    Just a little FYO.
    
    K.C.

   From Mom when I was going thru puberty:
    
    "you cannot go swimming while you have your period"
    "do not take a hot shower during your period, use warm water"
    
    From someone:
    
    "you cannot have sex while you have your period"
    "if you use tampons you will loose your virginity"

    From my mother-in-law
    
    Don't let the cat near the baby, it will suck his breath out and
    kill him.
    
    Don't let him look over his head at the mobile, his eyes will roll
    to the back of his head.

    In the same vein as .9, from my older sister when we were young:
    
    	"If you cross your fingers too long, they'll stay that way
    	forever."
    
    And, from my mom when I was pregnant:
    
    	"Don't reach up high for things; the baby can strangle on the
    	umbilical cord."
    
    

    George Carlin stole these from my mother:
    
    "Don't run with that (pencil, stick, etc.); you'll poke
    your eye out."                                       
                                                         
    "Don't climb up there; you'll fall and break your neck!"