Never have more children than you have car windows.
ERMA BOMBECKI haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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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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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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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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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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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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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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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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