"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding." ― Erma Bombeck Topic(s): Mom Tags: until More From Erma Bombeck "Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving." "A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat." "Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other." More In Mom "I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have."― Mark Zuckerberg "My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures."― Ashton Kutcher "Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."― Meryl Streep