Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black. Nora Ephron More Quotes by Nora Ephron More Quotes From Nora Ephron Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. Nora Ephron women memorable food Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover. Nora Ephron journalist interesting I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater. Nora Ephron pioneers women firsts people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it. Nora Ephron new-orleans cities people Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. Nora Ephron dinner abstract party I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks. Nora Ephron aging age want in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries. Nora Ephron socialist-countries luxury country Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun. Nora Ephron women movie years [I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.) Nora Ephron risk drama believe What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! Nora Ephron cooking hot comforting American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away. Nora Ephron going-away taken change The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I never knew what to do with my hair. I was a mess. And I still carry that fifteen-year-old girl around now. A piece of me still believes I'm the girl nobody dances with. Nora Ephron girl believe school Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both. Nora Ephron unhappy home night There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism. Nora Ephron journalism news television No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it. Nora Ephron cynical romance thinking Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist. Nora Ephron people years fall The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money. Nora Ephron four lasts years Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is 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 real running jobs I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it? Nora Ephron settling expectations want Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all. Nora Ephron drinking laughing sex