Nora Ephron Quotes

• The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

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• I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

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• I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
  most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

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  Be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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• It seemed to me that 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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Nora Ephron (21)

Birth:	19th May, 1941
Death:	26th June, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Filmmaker, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter

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