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Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.

Erma Bombeck

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Erma Bombeck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: April 22
Column Author
Journalist
Writer
Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
Gift
Seem
Woman
Seems
Women
Never
Hidden

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With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.
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The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, Could I get you your check? and we answered, How about the menu first?
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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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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
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One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies.
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
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Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.
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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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My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!
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When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
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I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.
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I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.
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Never order food in excess of your body weight.
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