Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephronwas an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth19 May 1941
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
years four lasts
The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.
thinking romance cynical
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.
graduation education inspire
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
funny-relationship men want
Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
falling-in-love holiday forget
What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?
party dinner abstract
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.
hurt two feminist
I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
past reality infidelity
When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.
people way one-way
People have only one way to be.
friendship important watches
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.
book reading opposites
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
achievement movement dutch
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
beautiful get-better looks
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 very moment gaining my looks.
book men always-alone
A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...