Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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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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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I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.
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For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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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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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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He who laughs lasts.
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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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Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
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There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.
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Children make your life important.
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There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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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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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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