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More Quotes by Nora Ephron
Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "
The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.
That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. 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. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
