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Nora Ephron Quotes

Total quotes: 50
“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”
— Nora Ephron, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
Tagged: Summer, Bachelors
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
— Nora Ephron, Nora Ephron's Inspiring Commencement Address
Tagged: Life, Get Into Trouble
“It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.”
— Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck
Tagged: Indifference, Moving On
“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”
— Nora Ephron, Durata Del Dramma
Tagged: Insanity, Sanity
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.”
— Nora Ephron, Nora Ephron: 10 Memorable Quotes
Tagged: Tragedy, comedy
“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.”
— Nora Ephron, Nora Ephron: 12 quotes to commemorate her life
Tagged: Marriage, romance, Cynicism
“When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.”
— Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron
Tagged: Slapstick, Laughter
“Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.”
— Nora Ephron, Nora Ephron's 'Cookbook' showcases passion for food, prose
Tagged: chicken, Cooking
“I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realize how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'”
— Nora Ephron, Nora Ephron: The heroine of her life, not the victim
Tagged: feminism, humor
“If you want to be successful and you are a woman, you have to understand that there’s all kinds of horrible stuff that comes with it, and you simply cannot do anything about it but move on.”
— Nora Ephron, Nora Knows What To Do - The New Yorker
Tagged: Alpha Female, Women, boss, Success
“When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.”
— Nora Ephron
Tagged: Reading
“I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.”
— Nora Ephron, Heartburn
Tagged: Love, Regret
“I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.”
— Nora Ephron, Stephen Marche(and You) on the Best Nora Ephron Quotes
Tagged: eating
“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”
— Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron
Tagged: romance
“I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from.”
— Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron
Tagged: Regret, Mistakes
“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.”
— Nora Ephron, 12 Ways Nora Ephron Taught Us To Be Better Women
Tagged: Writing, Women
“Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.”
— Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron
Tagged: Worrying, hair, Death
“But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn’t share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably.”
— Nora Ephron
Tagged: Marriage
“A job with real power is the First Lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for President are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.”
— Nora Ephron, The Snark Handbook: Politics and Government Edition
Tagged: Presidency, First LAdy, Power
“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.”
— Nora Ephron, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
Tagged: Marriage, Divorce
“You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.”
— Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing
Tagged: Parenting
“He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence began with his style and eventually ended up with our own.”
— Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron
Tagged: Zen
“What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said.”
— Nora Ephron, Quotes from "You've Got Mail"
Tagged: Self-Doubt
“I’ve always believed that the concept of the Jewish princess was invented by a Jewish prince who couldn’t get his wife to fetch him the butter.”
— Nora Ephron
Tagged: Jewish American Princess, butter
“Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.”
— Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck
Tagged: Black, Fashion, style
“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.”
— Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble
Tagged: Jealousy
“[B]eware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.”
— Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron
Tagged: Crying, Sensitivity, Men
“Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.”
— Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble
Tagged: Washington DC, Politicians
“If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.”
— Nora Ephron, SheKnows.com Presents- The Mommy Files
Tagged: Pregnancy
“It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tenterhooks waiting for the next copy of whatever publication you work at.”
— Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing
Tagged: Journalism, self-absorption
“People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate.”
— Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron
Tagged: Journalism, Cynicism, voyeurism
“I have been forgetting things for years—at least since I was in my thirties. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time. I have proof. Of course, I can’t remember exactly where I wrote about it, or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.”
— Nora Ephron
Tagged: Memory, Aging
“We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.”
— Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck
Tagged: Aging
“I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly.”
— Kathleen Kelly, You've Got Mail
Tagged: love quotes, Movie Love Quotes
“So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know if it can clean up the mess in our minds.”
— Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron
Tagged: Sexual Fantasies, romance, Literature, feminism
“It's always hard to remember love—years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?”
— Nora Ephron
Tagged: Bill Clinton, Love, Desperation
“Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!”
— Nora Ephron, Heartburn
Tagged: Marriage, Cooking
“The hardest thing about writing is writing.”
— Nora Ephron, Jennifer E Smith: 'I think I'm always fondest of the book I'm working on at any given moment, since it's so immediate to me'
Tagged: Writing
“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.”
— Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck
Tagged: feminism, Manhattan, Los Angeles
“Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life—well, valuable, but small—and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void.”
— Nora Ephron, Double Feature
Tagged: Reading
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