3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
3 December 2020 Erma Bombeck It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
