Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
ERMA BOMBECKI 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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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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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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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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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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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