Erma Bombeck

Who was Erma Bombeck?

Erma Louise Bombeck was 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 chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife with broad, and sometimes eloquent humor. By the 1970s, her columns were read, twice weekly, by 30 million readers of the 900 newspapers of the U.S. and Canada.

Famous Quotes:

• Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
• You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
• I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years.
• It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me..
• The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
• I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.
• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.