Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
ERMA BOMBECKSometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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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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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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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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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When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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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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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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