Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework can kill you if done right.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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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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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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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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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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