Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble. Nora Ephron More Quotes by Nora Ephron More Quotes From Nora Ephron I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise 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 movement laughing people You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion. Nora Ephron abortion feminist believe Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy. Nora Ephron insane-person crazy depression You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream. Nora Ephron fool dream reality You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. Nora Ephron marriage dog love I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it. Nora Ephron believer deals knowing 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! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles. Nora Ephron cooking food long I look as young as a person can look given how old I am. Nora Ephron given young looks 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 regret mistake love You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation. Nora Ephron interpretation born life Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four. Nora Ephron regret reading years Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.) Nora Ephron everything-happens-for-a-reason believe thinking Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever. Nora Ephron comes-and-goes divorce forever I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it. Nora Ephron events taste people Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from. Nora Ephron funny-relationship want men I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me. Nora Ephron buying-things new-york home Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? " Nora Ephron writing mean book And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream. Nora Ephron choices dream reality In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old. Nora Ephron clueless facts years 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 dark book way
