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Do I have to use my own money?

Erma Bombeck

Use, My Own

Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.320, Open Road Media

The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

Erma Bombeck

Funny, God, Humorous

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

Erma Bombeck

Funny, Cute, Friends

Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.477, Open Road Media

Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

Erma Bombeck

Girl, Humorous, Phones

Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.64, Open Road Media

I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

Erma Bombeck

Tables, Littles, Jars

For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

Erma Bombeck

Laughter, Holiday, Play

Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.11, Fawcett

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

Giving, Funeral, May

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Erma Bombeck

Kids, Literature, Entertaining

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

Erma Bombeck

Hurt, Father, Leaving