Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
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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A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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Success is outliving your failures.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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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Housework can kill you if done right.
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Children make your life important.
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Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
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Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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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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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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