Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
ERMA BOMBECKPregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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Children make your life important.
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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