Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. — 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 only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that.The point is that for a long… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved… — 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
