I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies. Nora Ephron More Quotes by Nora Ephron More Quotes From Nora Ephron Beware 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 tearsfeelingsmen There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book. Nora Ephron oxygenoceanbook The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women. Nora Ephron steps-forwardhurtsteps The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Nora Ephron divorceimportantlong We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'. Nora Ephron uterusknowinglooks And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so. Nora Ephron holidaysweetthinking If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron pregnancybabyinspirational So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting. Nora Ephron dryupliftinghair In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. Nora Ephron eroticcutesex 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. Nora Ephron motherhome-cookingfood My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. Nora Ephron momtragedymother 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 feminismexercisehair Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. Nora Ephron bachelorsbreezesummer Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. Nora Ephron new-yorkschoolfall 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. Nora Ephron healthimportantchildren 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 marriedpassionbelieve I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up. Nora Ephron remembertwochildren I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved. Nora Ephron readingmemoriesbook …the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death. Nora Ephron worryhairthinking If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other. Nora Ephron fightingbelievethinking
