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Nora Ephron
American
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About the author
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#Will
#Mystery
#Sex
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,
American
Author
#Will
#Problems
#Television
#Health
#Adolescence
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#Want
#Life
#Rest
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#Mother
#Cooking
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,
American
Author
#Desire
#Women
#Regret
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#Summer
#Bachelors
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,
American
Author
#Mother
#Cooking
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,
American
Author
#Life
#Day
#Mother
#Potential
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,
American
Author
#Men
#Feelings
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#Fantasy
#Mind
#Sex
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#Pregnancy
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#Women
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#First
#Writing
#Speech
#Care
#Acceptance
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#People
#Difficulty
Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#Buying
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#People
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
Nora Ephron,
American
Author
#People
#President
#Men
#Running