When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
ERMA BOMBECKI’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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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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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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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 my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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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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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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He who laughs lasts.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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