Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
ERMA BOMBECKIf I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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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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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Children make your life important.
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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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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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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.
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