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.
ERMA BOMBECKThe 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?
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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 is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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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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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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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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 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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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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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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