Nora Ephron Quotes

Nora Ephron was educated at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. She was an acclaimed essayist (Crazy Salad 1975), novelist (Heartburn 1983), and had written screenplays for several popular films, all featuring strong female characters, such as anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood (Silkwood (1983), co-written with Alice Arlen) and a mobster's feisty independent daughter Cookie Voltecki (Cookie (1989), also co-written with Arlen). Ephron's hard-headed sensibilities helped make Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally... (1989) a clear-eyed view of modern romance, and she earned an Oscar nomination for her original screenplay. ...more

Birth: May 19, 1941 - Death: June 26, 2012

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

It’s much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

Topic(s): Thinking , Ifs , Easier

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Motivational , Break

Journalists are interesting. They just aren’t as interesting as the things they cover.

Topic(s): Interesting , Journalist

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there’s no confusion about who’s to blame: You are.

Topic(s): Writing , Blame , Confusion

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

Topic(s): Men , Trouble , Response

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don’t mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

Topic(s): People , Kind , Mean

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it’s our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

Topic(s): Needs , Guy , Ability

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

Topic(s): Men , Want , Ends

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four.