When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
ERMA BOMBECKI 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.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Children make your life important.
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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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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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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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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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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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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