Nora Ephron Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

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.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

Take notes. Everything is copy.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

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.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

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.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.