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
Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.
If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.
My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.
... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.
I used everything you gave me.