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
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, "No, thank you," to dessert that night. And for what!
A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory -- an empty bottle of gin.
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.
How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.
One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other..
A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.
I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.
If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.
Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.
People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.