Nora Ephron Quotes

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

Crazy, Sure, Fine

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

Men, True, Feelings

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

Life, Mother, Understand

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

Women, Try, Write

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron

Sex, Mind, Nobody

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron

Offensive, Difficulty, Fascinated

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

Care, Writing, Acceptance

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

Alone, Women, Single

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

Men, Far, President

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

Life, Start, Possible

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

Good, Mother, Someone

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

Health, Important, Enough

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
Nora Ephron

Book, Two, Last

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

Cool, Summer, Pretend

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron

Mother, Someone, Hard

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
Nora Ephron

Great, Sex, Happen

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
Nora Ephron

Start, Married, Whenever

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 19, 1941

Died: June 26, 2012

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