Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
ERMA BOMBECKEncourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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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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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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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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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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Some 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.
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