Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
ERMA BOMBECKI never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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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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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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