17 Quotes by Nora Ephron
- What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
- 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 enough for a television movie.
- What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
- 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.
- Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
- 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 do it for you.
- In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
- If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
- I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
- 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 Oscar acceptance speech.
- I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
- Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
- Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
- As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
- Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
- Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.
- Success is just failure that didn't give up its daytime job.
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