Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them. Nora Ephron More Quotes by Nora Ephron More Quotes From Nora Ephron 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 oxygen ocean book The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women. Nora Ephron steps-forward hurt steps 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 divorce important long 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 uterus knowing looks 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 holiday sweet thinking If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron pregnancy baby inspirational 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 dry uplifting hair In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. Nora Ephron erotic cute sex 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 mother home-cooking food 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 mom tragedy mother 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 feminism exercise hair Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. Nora Ephron bachelors breeze summer 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-york school fall 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 health important children 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 married passion believe I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up. Nora Ephron remember two children 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 reading memories book …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 worry hair thinking 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 fighting believe thinking 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
