Erma Bombeck
  • Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

  • Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

  • A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

  • Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

  • Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.