Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
ERMA BOMBECKIf 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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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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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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