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.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework can kill you if done right.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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He who laughs lasts.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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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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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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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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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
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