Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
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"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
Erma Bombeck
"“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”"
Erma Bombeck
"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes."
Erma Bombeck
"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."
Erma Bombeck
"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."
Erma Bombeck
"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other."
Erma Bombeck
"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
Erma Bombeck
"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
Erma Bombeck
"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
Erma Bombeck
"Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother."
Erma Bombeck
"Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids."
Erma Bombeck
"When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
Erma Bombeck
"Never have more children than you have car windows."
Erma Bombeck
"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."
Erma Bombeck
"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
Erma Bombeck
"I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it."
Erma Bombeck
"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it."
Erma Bombeck
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
Erma Bombeck
"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."
Erma Bombeck
"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."
Erma Bombeck
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