It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
ERMA BOMBECKOne 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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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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Children make your life important.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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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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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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