Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

God created man, but I could do better.

Erma Bombeck
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
Erma Bombeck

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Erma Bombeck
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
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
Erma Bombeck

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Erma Bombeck
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
Erma Bombeck

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

Erma Bombeck
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
Erma Bombeck

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.