Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
ERMA BOMBECKSeize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
More Erma Bombeck Quotes
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.
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A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. “What shall we name the other one?” I smiled. She was not amused.
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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
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My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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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.
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You’re on your own, Bernice.
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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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Every puppy should have a boy.
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Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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