Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read… — 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
You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You can blame Al Gore and you can blame Ralph Nader and you can blame George Bush, but I blame Bill [Clinton].… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of… — 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
