It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
ERMA BOMBECKThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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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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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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