One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
ERMA BOMBECKI am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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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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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
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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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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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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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