There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
ERMA BOMBECKWhen you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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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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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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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 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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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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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Children make your life important.
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