I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
ERMA BOMBECKIt is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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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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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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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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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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