More Quotes by Nora Ephron
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.
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
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.
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.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
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.
Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.
