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
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.
He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures... but he was never in them.
Laugh now, cry later.
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
When humor go's, there go's civilization.
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food
Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing.
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.
If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.