It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn’t turn it on.
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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
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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 theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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