Nora Ephron Quotes
. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.
I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
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.
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
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.
Here's the thing about dessert--you want it to last. You want to savor it.
I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.
I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
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.
Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
My parents had drinks and there were crudités for us- although they were not called crudités at the time, they were called carrots and celery.
