Nora Ephron Quotations | Page 2

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.

When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.

People have only one way to be.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it...

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.