I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
ERMA BOMBECKThere’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Children make your life important.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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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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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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If 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.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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