Home / Quotes / Quote by Erma Bombeck

Quote by Erma Bombeck

“Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.”

Quote by Erma Bombeck

Book:At Wit's End

Work

In 'At Wit's End,' the protagonist navigates the tumultuous waters of life, grappling with internal conflicts and external pressures. The narrative delves into themes of resilience, self-discovery, and the search for meaning amidst life's trials. more

Author

Erma Bombeck was an American humorist and newspaper columnist renowned for her sharp wit and poignant observations on family life and suburban living. Born on February 21, 1927, she passed away on April 22, 1996. Bombeck's columns were syndicated in over 1,000 newspapers, and her books became bestsellers. more

You May Also Like

“There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.”

Past Women Lines Behinds Conscious Stretching Behind You

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.”

World Mean Different Dream Dies Girl Women Flower Illusion Fancy That Girl

Author:Christina Stead

“It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.”

People Feels Mean Nice Appreciate Feel Good Affected

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“There cannot be too many glorious women.”

Women Glorious Men Women

Book:A Woman's Worth

Source: A Woman's Worth

“It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.”

Has Beens Country Political Women Realizing Relief

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.”

Giving Firsts May Stills Wish Women Complete Freedom

Author:Elizabeth Blackwell

“When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.”

Enjoy Women Conventional Conform Femininity Being A Woman Lost Youth Feminine Mystique

Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.”

Men Trying Today Women Agree Characteristics Occupation Admirable

Author:Benjamin Spock

“Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.”

World Choices Women Champion

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and - from time immemorial - the woman. In the small circle of the home she has never quite forgotten the particular uniqueness of each member of the family; the spontaneity of now; the vividness of here. This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the drops that make up the stream. They are the essence of life itself.”