Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
ERMA BOMBECKHousework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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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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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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Success is outliving your failures.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Grandparenthood is one of life’s rewards for surviving your own children.
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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