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It’s the birthday of the woman who observed: “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.” “Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.” “It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.” Erma Louise Bombeck (February 21, 1927 – April 22, 1996) 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.