People who are drawn to journalism are usually people who, because of their cynicism or emotional detachment or reserve or whatever, are incapable of being anything but witnesses to events. Something prevents them from becoming involved, committed, and allows them to remain separate. - Nora Ephron
If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. - Nora Ephron
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
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. - Nora Ephron
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. - Nora Ephron
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. - Nora Ephron
Whenever I get married I start buying Gourmet Magazine. - Nora Ephron
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. - Nora Ephron
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. - Nora Ephron
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. - Nora Ephron
Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. - Nora Ephron