"You become about as exciting as your..." - Quote by Erma Bombeck

“Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.”

“Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.”

“Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.”

“Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.”

“If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."”

“Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.”

“Living is like tearing through a museum.”

“I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!”

“What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?”