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
Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.
I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.
In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.
Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.
Laugh now, cry later.
She's as funny as a toothache