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
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.
Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.
I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore.
When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty "just adding water." Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.
House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.
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.
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.