Erma Bombeck Quotes

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.

I was very immature when I married.

Kids don't come with instruction manuals. It's interesting, but after you have your kids, it's a blessing. It's not as hard as people may think it is.

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

When you are young, you are a little naive.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.'

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

The frustrations and joys of parenthood are just hard to understand until you have a kid... the constant fight you're having with yourself, like loving being with your kid but also being kind of bored and wanting to look at your iPhone - it's kind of an interesting thing that's hard to write about before you've experienced it.

I have insecurity problems like every teenage girl, but you have to work through them.

I'm just a young kid.

There have been times when I have goofed up, and like every adolescent, I sometimes did get led the wrong way. I would come back home really scared to face my mom's wrath and anger, but surprisingly, I never got to face one. She would always tell me in a very nice manner that what I did was wrong and that I should correct myself.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

I think I feel like a kid myself, so it's quite a scary thought having kids. I don't think I'm ever not going to feel like a child myself.