Nora Ephron Quotes

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

I actually believe in denial.

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.

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

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'

The empty nest is underrated.

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."

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

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

I'll have what she's having

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

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

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

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.

I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.

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.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

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.

My religion is Get Over It.

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

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.

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

My parents had drinks and there were crudités for us- although they were not called crudités at the time, they were called carrots and celery.

Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.

. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.

It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.