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Argument & Debate
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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
-Nora Ephron
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Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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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.
-Nora Ephron
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Insanity
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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
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Literary
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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
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Politics
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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
-Nora Ephron
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Sex
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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.
-Nora Ephron
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Women
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Every so often, I turn on the television and see one of the movement leaders being asked some idiot question like,
-Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad, ch. 5, 1972
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Books by and about Nora Ephron