Rooms Quotes by Erma Bombeck

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

— Erma Bombeck

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

— Erma Bombeck

A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.

— Erma Bombeck

Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he…

— Erma Bombeck

I think it's time we women stopped carrying supplies for the entire family. If children don't have room to carry their own…

— Erma Bombeck

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

— Erma Bombeck

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18…

— Erma Bombeck

It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through…

— Erma Bombeck

Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We…

— Erma Bombeck

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit…

— Erma Bombeck

I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of…

— Erma Bombeck

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding…

— Erma Bombeck