Nora Ephron Quotes

That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely ple...

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing arou...

Sometimes I believe that love dies but hope springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that hope dies but ...

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I woul...

The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that ...

I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be - feminine, and feminine in the worst wa...

I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of m...

People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional de...

One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a ...

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic an...

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because o...

My parents had drinks and there were crudités for us- although they were not called crudités at the ...

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bou...

'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it neve...

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much ...

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

It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail

Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if...

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easi...

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea div...

As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.

Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends. Sally Albright: Why not? Harry Bu...

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I ...

I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to or...

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif...

I love trash. I have never believed that kitsch kills. I tell you this, so you will understand that ...

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turne...

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

In my sex fantasy nobody ever loves me for my mind.

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

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day o...

When you have a baby you set off an explosion in your marriage and when the dust settles your mar...

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes tha...

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.

. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over aga...

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.Enough about that.The poi...

But the truth is you don't always know you're getting a divorce. For years, you're married. Then, on...

Here's the thing about dessert--you want it to last. You want to savor it.

But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn’t share the housework but t...

People always say that once it goes away, you forget the pain. It’s a cliché of childbirth: you forg...

But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the...

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Wheth...

My religion is Get Over It.

Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems t...

In these days of physical fitness, hair dye, and plastic surgery, you can live much of your life wit...

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

I'd known since I was a child that I was going to live in New York eventually, and that everything i...

I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't...

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is foll...

I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onio...

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...

I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children wit...

I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and...

It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was...

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is r...

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy...

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, be...

The truth is, most of the genuinely tragic episodes of lost food are things that are somewhat outsid...

The point (I was starting to realize) was about putting it together. The point was making people fee...

My marriage to him was as willful an act as I have ever committed; I married him against all the evi...

I remember thinking that no one had ever told me how much I would love my child; now, of course, I r...