Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
ERMA BOMBECKSome 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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