I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis. Nora Ephron More Quotes by Nora Ephron More Quotes From Nora Ephron If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. The beginning is glorious, especially if you're lucky enough not to have morning sickness and if, like me, you've had small breasts all your life. Suddenly they begin to grow, and you've got them, you've really got them, breasts, darling breasts, and when you walk down the street they bounce, truly they do, they bounce bounce bounce. Nora Ephron morning pregnancy book If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want. Nora Ephron women-want ifs want If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better. Nora Ephron husband play cheating 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. Nora Ephron directing-movies confusion writing Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying. Nora Ephron one-day serious worry These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid. Nora Ephron new-york jobs long We all look good for our age. Except for our necks. Nora Ephron necks age looks As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. Nora Ephron running men people You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming. Nora Ephron becoming The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Nora Ephron divorce way 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. Nora Ephron tone views writing Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry. Nora Ephron hungry lasts meals 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.' Nora Ephron thoughtful giving mean 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 whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds. Nora Ephron literature mind men Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy. Nora Ephron illusion feminism consciousness I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it. Nora Ephron feminist hurt two [Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy. Nora Ephron educational college meaningful Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip. Nora Ephron boys sex dirty The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is sayingit is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six. Nora Ephron believe father thinking What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. Nora Ephron liberation mystery sex
