I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
ERMA BOMBECKGiving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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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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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it’s still snowing.
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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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Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
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Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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