I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.
Erma BombeckOne never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
Erma BombeckI firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.
Erma BombeckGiving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
Erma Bombeck