Erma Bombeck

Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.

Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop read more

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two read more

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.