More Quotes by Nora Ephron
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.
I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
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? "
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.
I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.
