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
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.
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 your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
The term 'working mother' is redundant.
Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.