No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie. — 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 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
[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet… — 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