Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
ERMA BOMBECKAs a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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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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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.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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