It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
ERMA BOMBECKSometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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He who laughs lasts.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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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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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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