It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
ERMA BOMBECKLaughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman’s life she can help God work a miracle.
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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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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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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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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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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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