Erma Bombeck Quotes
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!
Quotes to Explore
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
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Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
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There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.
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The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
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Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.
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I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
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God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.
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People who decide they came to earth to work, who make work their personal philosophy, are kept very busy.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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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!
