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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next. — Nora Ephron

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 it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side. — Nora Ephron

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. — Nora Ephron

My religion is Get Over It. — Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here? — Nora Ephron

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. — Nora Ephron

Block everyone on your instant mail. — Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron's great line that overtipping only costs a few dollars more. — John Waters

When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. — Nora Ephron

Love is homesickness. — Nora Ephron

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want. — Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron accidentally ruined a lot of lives. — Chuck Klosterman

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid. — Nora Ephron

Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five. — Nora Ephron

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry. — Nora Ephron

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. — Nora Ephron

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism. — Nora Ephron

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what. — Nora Ephron

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism. — Nora Ephron

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. — Nora Ephron

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy. — Nora Ephron

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else. — Nora Ephron

The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does. — Nora Ephron

I'm religious about salted butter. I don't understand how it happened that everyone thought we should all have sweet butter. I blame the French. — Nora Ephron

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person ... Reading is bliss. — Nora Ephron

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. — Nora Ephron

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. — Nora Ephron

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it. — Nora Ephron

I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I'm just a food person. — Nora Ephron

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old. — Nora Ephron

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 uplifting. — Nora Ephron

As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way. — Nora Ephron

Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at — Nora Ephron

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them. — Nora Ephron

Every so often I contemplate suicide merely to remind myself of my complete lack of interest in it as a solution to anything at all. — Nora Ephron

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is. — Nora Ephron

The hardest thing about writing is writing. — Nora Ephron

The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women. — Nora Ephron

At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin. — Nora Ephron

I discovered then that the world I was living in was so much more interesting than the world I was capable of conceiving. — Nora Ephron

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up. — Nora Ephron

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it. — Nora Ephron

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are. — Nora Ephron

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. — Nora Ephron

We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don't quite believe it. — Nora Ephron

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments. — Nora Ephron

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble. — Nora Ephron

Checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired. — Nora Ephron

I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead. — Nora Ephron

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan. — Nora Ephron

Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking. — Nora Ephron

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not. — Nora Ephron

Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. — Nora Ephron

Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them. — Nora Ephron

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked. — Nora Ephron

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it. — Nora Ephron

What did she look like?" "Thin. Pretty. Big tits. Your basic nightmare." We — Nora Ephron

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much. — Nora Ephron

On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can't remember it, who can? — Nora Ephron

Here's the thing about dessert--you want it to last. You want to savor it. — Nora Ephron

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries. — Nora Ephron

Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken. — Nora Ephron

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion. — Nora Ephron

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up. — Nora Ephron

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) — Nora Ephron

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie. — Nora Ephron

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble. — Nora Ephron

I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it. — Nora Ephron

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. — Nora Ephron

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away. — Nora Ephron

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life. — Nora Ephron

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation. — Nora Ephron

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending. — Nora Ephron

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black. — Nora Ephron

The empty nest is underrated. — Nora Ephron

Bernice Gera turned out to be only human, after all, which is not a luxury pioneers are allowed. — Nora Ephron

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? — Nora Ephron

The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back. — Nora Ephron

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg. — Nora Ephron

I was always a huge fan of Nora Ephron. — Haylie Duff

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job. — Nora Ephron

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. — Nora Ephron

I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me. — Nora Ephron

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial. — Nora Ephron

Everything is copy. — Nora Ephron

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks. — Nora Ephron

This year things are different. This year my husband is a stranger. Do not let this stranger see me eviscerated. — Nora Ephron

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies. — Nora Ephron

Whatever it is, I'm not up for it." "Oh, Missee Felman, I feel so bad for ju, — Nora Ephron

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. — Nora Ephron

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe. — Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. — Nora Ephron

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money. — Nora Ephron

I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period. — Nora Ephron

Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love. — Nora Ephron

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am. — Nora Ephron

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right. — Nora Ephron

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident. — Nora Ephron

SALLY Harry, I can't do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye. — Nora Ephron

You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins. — Nora Ephron