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 BOMBECKGrandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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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 my theory you can’t get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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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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I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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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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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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