Erma Bombeck Quotes

A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.

Erma Bombeck

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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

Tamron Hall
- Life
- She
- Remember
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

Joanne Rowling
- Parent
- Point
- Where
My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

Warren Spector
- Wife
- Ideas
- Nothing
While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

Ma Jun
- Water
- Air
- China
From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

E. L. Doctorow
- Always
- Questions
- Answer
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi