Nora Ephron Quotes (27 Quotes)

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience.

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily not worse, necessarily but different.

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

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it

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.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

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.

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

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets

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

To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is knowing what your uterus looks like.

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.

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.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

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

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

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.