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Erma Bombeck

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About Erma Bombeck

Erma Louise Bombeck was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from 1965 to 1996. Fifteen books of her humor have been published; most became bestsellers.

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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.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.