All Nora Ephron Quotes
- My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Comic
- I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. Continually
- I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. Complicated
- I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your… Acceptance
- The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by… Almost Immediately
- When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon… Cheesy Love
- As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. Concerned
- If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. Baby
- My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would… Basically Believed
- With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important… Adolescence
- Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. Bachelors
- What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. All
- Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. Buying
- I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. Fall
- Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. All
- ... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen… Beside
- 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 better living through… All
- I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not. Angry
- And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or… Another Dream
- Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened… Address
- Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something… Accomplished
- When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. Children
- So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? Book
- When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how… Always Read
- I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love,… Action