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!
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.
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.
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.
We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)
When you're an orthodox worrier, some days are worse than others.
Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.
I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.