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«You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.»
«Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Fame,
Success
| Keywords:
confuse, Helen, Helen Keller, Keller, Madonna, with success
«No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.»
«As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| Keywords:
believed, belonged, best friend, grade, graded, grades, grade school, grading, librarian, librarians, number one, The Librarian
«Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.»
«Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Adulthood,
Children,
Cute,
Graduation
| Keywords:
adults, ceremony, come home, contemporaries, graduation, graduations, raising, The Contemporary, tough, twenty-two, two-year, unemployed
«Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.»
«I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| Keywords:
affair, paper, route, routed, routes, security, social, social affair, Social Security, tired, Too Old
«Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.»
«A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend-and he's a priest.»
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