Quotes from Nora Ephron

I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.

once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.

I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies - which I once thought of as totally unique - turn out to be clichés

There were cats; cats I was wildly attached to — my husband and I spoke in cat voices. Once the marriage was over, I never thought of the cats again (until I wrote about them in a novel and disguised them as hamsters).

My parents had drinks and there were crudités for us- although they were not called crudités at the time, they were called carrots and celery.

My brain clears in an amazing way. Nora. We can't do everything. I have been given the secret of life. Altough it's probably a little late.

On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can't remember it, who can?

I can't understand why anyone would write fiction when what actually happens is so amazing.

That's what a marriage is...Pieces break off, and you glue them back on.

Is what you think interesting enough to make the reader care? Are you saying something that no one has said? Above all, do you understand that you are not as important as what you're covering?

2. I live in an apartment. I could never live anywhere but in an apartment. I love apartments because I lose everything. Apartments are horizontal, so it's much easier to find the things I lose-- such as my glasses, gloves, wallet, lipstick, book, magazine, cell phone, and credit card. The other day I actually lost a piece of cheese in my apartment.

You know, everything adds up. It's what I keep saying in my books and in Cosmo. If you do every little thing you can do in your own modest position, one thing leads to another. So do it and be it and write the letters and make the phone calls and get on with it.

I discovered then that the world I was living in was so much more interesting than the world I was capable of conceiving.

We'd grown up in an era when no one was divorced, and suddenly everyone was divorced.

We begin, I'm sorry to say, with hair. I'm sorry to say it because the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

Here's the thing about dessert--you want it to last. You want to savor it.

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.

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. – Nora Ephron

You're talking dream date compared to my horror. I started out fine, she's a very nice person, and we're sitting and we're talking in this Ethiopian restaurant she wanted to go to. I was making jokes, like, "Hey, I didn't know they had food in Ethiopia. This'll be a quick meal. I'll order two empty plates and we can leave.

The internet is the superhighway of grammatically incorrect moral outrage. EPHRON:

Anyway, here's how you make it: Take 6 cups defrosted lima beans, 6 pears peeled and cut into slices, ½ cup molasses, ½ cup chicken stock, ½ onion chopped, put into a heavy casserole, cover and bake 12 hours at 200°. That's the sort of food she loved to serve, something that looked

Men, he said as he left. I hate them. I've always hated them. You wonder why I always hang around with women and never with men, it's because men do things like this. He waved his hand vaguely at me and my stomach and jogged off into the night.

I want him to stop seeing her. I want him to say he never really loved her. I want him to say he must have been crazy. I want her to die. I want him to die, too. I thought you said you wanted him back, said Ellis. I do, I said, but I want him back dead.

All beginnings are intrinsically happy.