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.
ERMA BOMBECKGiving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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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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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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Children make your life important.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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