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
In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had never seen raisins dance in dark glasses on TV...never had a garage sale.
Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, "Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.
You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.
I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby...
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.
I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
God created man, but I could do better.
House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?