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

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)
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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
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I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.
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If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
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The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
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The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
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The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
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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.
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Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.
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[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.
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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.
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Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
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Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.
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So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
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You can blame Al Gore and you can blame Ralph Nader and you can blame George Bush, but I blame Bill [Clinton]. I just do. I just think he squandered his presidency the night that woman delivered that pizza to him, and if he hadn't, we wouldn't be where we are and there would be a lot of people who are alive today who aren't.
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
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I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.
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