To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.
Erma BombeckSex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.
Erma BombeckLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckNever be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.
Erma BombeckI was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.
Erma Bombeck