When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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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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I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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Cats invented self-esteem.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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