Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
ERMA BOMBECKI just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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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 cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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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 my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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