All Nora Ephron Quotes
- What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add… Add
- I was just taking her hand to help her out of a cab. And it was like... magic. Cab
- Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments. Cinematic
- Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them. Children
- I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free… All
- You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you… Believer
- Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble. Always Seemed
- You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion. Abortion
- So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more… Beauty
- In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies. Childbirth
- I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it. Believer
- You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream. Another Dream
- Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become… All
- And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands. Always Change
- New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) Cities
- I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it. Cause
- The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries. America
- It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following quarter-century warning that… Cautious
- Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape. Book
- The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. Achievement
- One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this… Advantage
- A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it... Alone
- I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant,… Alive
- Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Admit
- Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend… Beware