It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
ERMA BOMBECKCats invented self-esteem.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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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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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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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.
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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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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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