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
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The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat
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I think what's unexpected is that you keep reading it will happen and hearing it will happen, and then when it happens you find yourself genuinely thrilled on behalf of women.
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It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever after'' and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.
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When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
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Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
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Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.
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And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
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Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
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New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
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Another thing you end up doing when you get older, is you spend so much time sort of trying desperately to keep from just looking just a little older. You're just constantly putting stuff on your face and having things removed from yourself and opening up copies of "Vogue" so that you can find new ways to throw whatever money you've managed to save into the arms of some doctor who has just come up with a new way of lasering your face that feels like electroshock and all these things.
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Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
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Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.
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In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
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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.