- The $1.5 million advance fee and all proceeds from her book "I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to go to Boise" was donated to cancer research.
- Her father also suffered from polycystic disease, and died when she was 9.
- Dubbed by Life Magazine "the Socrates of the ironing board".
- Mother of Michael Bombeck.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 53-54. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Born at 4:40am-EST
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