My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The truth is that if my father weren't my father, he would be one of the men he hates; he is incorrigibly… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“So Lillian Ross came to the party. Before dinner, she asked my mother for a tour of the house. My mother showed… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I know," I said, "but it scares me. It reminds me of my father." I'm not your father," said Mark. "Repeat after… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“When I first met him, he had a recurrent nightmare that Henry Kissinger was chasing him with a knife, and I said… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
'When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. When you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.' — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned, utterly foolish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
![“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of…” quote by Nora Ephron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d79/nora-ephron-1217_business_s-ometimes-when-you-are-a-food-person-th_980.jpg)
