Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.
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I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
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'Lookit that,' he said. 'A lawyer who knows how to do something useful. That’s a miracle.'
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If you're squeezed for information,that's when you've got to play it dumb:You just say you're out there waitingfor the miracle to come.
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Pregnancy changed my body; it changed the way I walk.
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In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.
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Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!
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I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.
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Kids dealing with these really adult-problems. I'm making big, generalized statements but our culture doesn't acknowledge these things. Sex does lead to pregnancy! Kids don't always have an outlet or someone they can talk to about it.
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I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.
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I know the dark delight of being strange,The penalty of difference in the crowd,The loneliness of wisdom among fools
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Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.
