I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, “Never mind! I'll do it myself. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?! — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image