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.
• 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 as possible.
• 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.
• My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
• 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.
• Life is soup, and I am a fork.
• The only service to value is the one offered when we pull our heads out of bestseller crannies and dive fully into the absurdity of life.
• Success is just failure that didn't give up its daytime job.
• Every journey begins with a single step—perhaps one to the snack aisle!
• Adventure may not always be glamorous, but how adorably it tramples the beige monotony off life!
• If you're not laughing at the absurdity of life, you might be taking it a bit too seriously.
• Life is like a selection of ice cream flavors: the more you taste, the harder it is to choose just one.
• Life’s an adventure where you can choose the misadventures; it's all fun until someone finds the completely unassembled IKEA furniture.
• Life is a wonderful adventure, and the best GPS is a sense of humor.
• Life is like a flashlight; sometimes you need to change the batteries to keep shining.
• Life is a lot like a particularly challenging pie; sometimes you're just dumped a whole basket of apples, and you don't even remember signing up for dessert!
• At some point, you have to stop worrying about figuring out what’s next and just feel the adventure happening right now.
• Life is like a glass of punch: it only takes one drop of worry to spill the whole thing.
• Humor is just another way of looking at the world that makes it a little less terrifying.
• Life is so much richer when you embrace every eccentricity—it’s your quirk that makes you a limited edition!
• Life is like a sandwich; no matter which way you flip it, theәажәк issues alternate realities are about to blend flavors you never saw coming.
• Life is a stage, and each setback just means you need to work on your monologue before the next act.