Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
ERMA BOMBECKFor years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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 never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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