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!
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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 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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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 are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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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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When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.
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We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.
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Women have no government.
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There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
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I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.
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The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women’s unions.
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By the mid-’90s, the anger at men had become so palpable that even sedate publications like The Economist were characterizing women’s vs. men’s workload as 'A woman’s work is never done; a man is drunk from sun to sun.'
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The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
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We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
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When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.
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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.
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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
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My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.
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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!
