Thursday 13:Erma knows life
Inspiration and heroes come from all walks of life. I never really thought about who influenced me until I was flat out asked. I could really only think of one person.
Erma Louise Bombeck , born Erma Fiste, was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for a newspaper column that depicted suburban home life humorously, in the second half of the 20th century. Bombeck also published 15 books, most of which became best-sellers.
From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck published over 4,000 newspaper humor articles. By the 1970s, her witty columns were read, twice weekly, by thirty million readers of 900 newspapers of the U.S. and Canada.
Here are some of my favorite quotes by her.
1- “I was going to have inner peace if I had to break a few heads to do it.”
2- It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
3- “It is fast approaching the point where I don’t want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.”
4- There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
5- 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”.
6- “There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, “Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams.” Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there.”
7- “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.”
8- Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
9- I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security, and too tired for an affair.
10- Oh, quit being such a Pollyanna.
11- Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.
12- “If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.”
13- “I’ve decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.”
As a writer who has to hit the send button on submissions, I totally agree with “It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else”
Though… don’t feel courageous most days.
Great quotes!
*hugs*
Paige
My TT is at http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/
great quotes – and I’m completely on board with #3. Yeah. Totally.
Great list … I grew up on her books … brought back good memories thanks
I love how insightful she was. My mother got me hooked on her when I was a teenager but giving me the book If Life Is A Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing In The Pits.
I love Erma. Most of my classmates looked at me weird when I was reading her collections in middle school, but she never failed to reach me.