9 Quotes By Nora Ephron


The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron on alone

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
Nora Ephron on cool

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 on good

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 on health

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 on life

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 on men

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
Nora Ephron on men

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
Nora Ephron on women

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron on women