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 BOMBECKMy second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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He who laughs lasts.
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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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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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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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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.
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A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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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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People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.
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I 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.
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It is my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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