It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job. — Erma Bombeck Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.” — Erma Bombeck Buzzards Copy Share Image
The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look… — Erma Bombeck Age Copy Share Image
Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. — 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 Desert Copy Share Image
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they… — Erma Bombeck Always smile Copy Share Image
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look… — Erma Bombeck Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“To be honest, however, I will have to admit that I wrote this book for the original model - the one who… — Erma Bombeck Book Copy Share Image
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who… — Erma Bombeck Body Copy Share Image
Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False.… — Erma Bombeck Canyons Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“After twenty-two years of marriage, we had outgrown the challenge of making something out of nothing. The nesting instincts just weren't there… — Erma Bombeck Marriage Copy Share Image
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose,… — Erma Bombeck Ambivalence Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. ... I would have cried… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Of the little less than a million eligibles roaming around, 5 percent don't know their sign and don't even care. Another 5… — Erma Bombeck Fashion model Copy Share Image
I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image