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
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?
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.