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
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.
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Cats invented self-esteem.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.