Erma Bombeck Quotes

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

I'm just gonna focus on raising my girls forever, and that's gonna be it.

I'm looking forward to just being a mom and being normal.

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I'm finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball.

I'm like any working mom.

Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

Time becomes more precious when you have children.

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

I'm a mom first.

I love my children, but I don't really want to talk about them. I'm not that much of a freakish middle-aged mother, I'm just very lucky, and there isn't much more to say. I'd like not to be constantly expected to be a spokesman for things that are part of the natural rhythm of a woman's life.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I'm going to be a real mommy.

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

Having children really changes your priorities.

I never get to go to movies, because I'm a mom.