Erma Bombeck
"For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward."
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"For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward."
"لقد أدت خاتم زواجي وظيفته لسنوات طوال. لم يقدني إلى الفتنة قط. ذكّر زوجي مراراً في الحفلات أن وقت العودة إلى المنزل قد حان. كان مصدر ارتياح لرفيق مائدة. وكان رمزاً للمكانة في جناح الولادة."
Erma Bombeck
"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."
"متى ما دخلت بهاراً إلى بيتك، فقد امتلكته للأبد. فالنساء لا يرمين البهارات أبداً. لقد دُفن المصريون مع بهاراتهم. وأنا أعرف أيها سآخذ معي حين أرحل."
Erma Bombeck
"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
"أنا من عائلة تعتبر المرق شرابًا."
Erma Bombeck
"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial."
"مثل الدين والسياسة وتنظيم الأسرة، حبوب الإفطار ليست موضوعاً يُطرح في العلن؛ إنها مثيرة للجدل أكثر من اللازم."
Erma Bombeck
"Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub."
Erma Bombeck
"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
Erma Bombeck
"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
Erma Bombeck
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."
Erma Bombeck
"There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say "Yes I've got dreams of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it and yep they're still there. These are great dreams but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line to hold them up and say "How good or how bad am I" That's where courage comes in."
Erma Bombeck
"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows."
Erma Bombeck
"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."
Erma Bombeck
"My mother phones daily to ask "Did you just try to reach me" When I reply no she adds "So if you're not too busy call me while I'm still alive " . . . and hangs up."
Erma Bombeck
"What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?"
Erma Bombeck
"But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there."
Erma Bombeck
"I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts I should be hanging from a charm bracelet."
Erma Bombeck
"You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates."
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 shampoo locking each other out of our rooms inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant loving laughing defending and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."
Erma Bombeck
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