Erma Bombeck

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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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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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.
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
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.
I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
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.
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
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.
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

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