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Erma Bombeck thanksgiving

Erma Bombeck | thanksgiving

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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Erma Bombeck | christmas

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

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Erma Bombeck Work

Erma Bombeck | work

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

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Erma Bombeck Women

Erma Bombeck | women

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

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Erma Bombeck Women

Erma Bombeck | women

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

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Erma Bombeck Women

Erma Bombeck | women

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

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Erma Bombeck Women

Erma Bombeck | women

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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Erma Bombeck Wisdom

Erma Bombeck | wisdom

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

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Erma Bombeck wedding

Erma Bombeck | wedding

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

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Erma Bombeck Time

Erma Bombeck | time

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

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