Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephronwas an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth19 May 1941
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
hurt two feminist
I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
past reality infidelity
When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.
people way one-way
People have only one way to be.
friendship important watches
Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.
book reading opposites
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
achievement movement dutch
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
beautiful get-better looks
One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.
children successful parent
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
guy needs trouble
Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.
country socialist-countries luxury
in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
change taken going-away
American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
cities new-orleans people
people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.
failure comes-and-goes
Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.
meaningful educational college
[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.