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
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. – 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
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. – Erma Bombeck
Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl