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.
ERMA BOMBECKEncourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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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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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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