Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck
Erma Louise Bombeckwas an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became bestsellers. From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns, using broad and sometimes eloquent humor, chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife. By the 1970s, her columns were read twice-weekly by 30 million readers of the 900 newspapers in the U.S...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 February 1927
CityBellbrook, OH
CountryUnited States of America
If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.
I got so much food spit back in my face when my kids were small, I put windshield wipers on my glasses.
My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.
No One Diets on Thanksgiving.
Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.
Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'
For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.
A small waist makes you tire easily.
We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'
My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
I lost everything in the post-natal depression.
The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?
Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest was initiated by a desire to return to the roots of yesterday. I contend the entire movement to acquire antiques was born out of sheer respect of things that lasted longer than fifteen minutes.