Nora Ephron

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Screenwriter · Born May 19, 1941 · Died Jun 26, 2012 · American · Female

Nora Ephron (EHF-rihn; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger. Ephron is best known for her romantic comedies and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing: for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally..., and Sleepless in Seattle. She won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally.... She sometimes wrote with her sister Delia Ephron. Her last film was Julie & Julia. She also co-authored the Drama Desk Award–winning theatrical production Love, Loss, and What I Wore. In 2013, Ephron received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy. 2Personal life Ephron was born in New York City to a Jewish family, the eldest of four daughters, and grew up in Beverly Hills. Her parents, Henry Ephron and Phoebe Wolkind Ephron, were both East Coast-born and were noted playwrights and screenwriters. Nora's younger sisters, Delia and Amy, are also screenwriter

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From “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman”

“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…”

Tagged: Reading, Books, Escape, Reality

“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.”

Tagged: Regret, beauty, clothing

From “Nora Knows What To Do - The New Yorker”

“If you want to be successful and you are a woman, you have to understand that there’s all kinds of horrible stuff that comes with it, and you simply cannot do anything about it but move on.”

Tagged: Alpha Female, Women, boss, Success

From “I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections”

“For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not. Now the most important thing about me is that I’m old.”

Tagged: Tough Love, Divorce, Marriage, Couples, Identity

From “Heartburn”

“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.”

Tagged: Falling Out Of Love, Dreams Die, Reality

“Sometimes I believe that love dies but hope springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that hope dies but love springs eternal. Sometimes I believe that sex plus guilt equals love, and sometimes I believe that sex plus guilt equals good sex. Sometimes I believe that love is as natural as the tides, and…”

Tagged: Read In Your 20s

From “You've Got Mail ”

“I wanted it to be you, I wanted it to be you so badly.”

Tagged: love quotes, Movie Love Quotes

From “Nora Ephron's Inspiring Commencement Address”

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

Tagged: Life, Get Into Trouble

From “Nora Ephron’s thoughts on ‘having it all’”

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”

Tagged: Complicated, Future, Decisions, Challenges

From “Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations”

“Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.”

Tagged: Summer, Bachelors

“The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.”

Tagged: Marriage, Divorce

From “I Feel Bad About My Neck”

“We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.”

Tagged: Aging

“According to my dermatologist, the neck starts to go at forty-three, and that's that...The neck is a dead giveaway. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck.”

Tagged: Aging, Dermatology

“Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.”

Tagged: Black, Fashion, style

“When I pass a bookshelf, I like to pick out a book from it and thumb through it. When I see a newspaper on the couch, I like to sit down with it....Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better…”

Tagged: Reading

“I loathed being sixty-four, and I will hate being sixty-five. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyannaish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over sixty. The long shadows are everywhere—friends dying and battling illness. A miasma of melancholy…”

Tagged: Aging, Regret, Edith Piaf

“I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you.…”

Tagged: New York City, 9/11

“It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.”

Tagged: Indifference, Moving On

“I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”

Tagged: Heartache, Loss

“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there…”

Tagged: feminism, Manhattan, Los Angeles