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
sex mystery liberation
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
believe almonds six
Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.
believe denial
I actually believe in denial.
summer winter men
There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.
pain men way
In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.
reading reality opposites
Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
men trouble response
Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
regret believe being-single
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
christian college boredom
I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.
romantic hands movie-love
I was just taking her hand to help her out of a cab. And it was like... magic.
senior google sound
The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.
mirrors age trying
That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
too-much belief ifs
You can never have too much butter – that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it,
wikipedia cases versions
You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).