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 BOMBECKLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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If 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.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
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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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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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