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 am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
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.
Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.
Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
