Quote

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.

Nora Ephron

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
Blogger
Essayist
Film Director
Film Producer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Reporter
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Four
Thirty
Year
Twenty
Anyone
Minute
Reading
Twenties
Young
Six
Take
Regret
Bikini
Right
Entire
Bikinis
Years
Minutes
Worn

More quotes by Nora Ephron

Image
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.
Nora Ephron
Image
You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.
Nora Ephron
Image
Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
Nora Ephron
Image
There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.
Nora Ephron
Image
[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.
Nora Ephron
Image
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.
Nora Ephron
Image
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are.
Nora Ephron
Image
I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?
Nora Ephron
Image
I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.
Nora Ephron
Image
Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
Nora Ephron
Image
You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.
Nora Ephron
Image
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.
Nora Ephron
Image
Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
Nora Ephron
Image
The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not.
Nora Ephron
Image
I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
Nora Ephron
Image
The empty nest is underrated.
Nora Ephron
Image
No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Nora Ephron
Image
Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
Nora Ephron
Image
People have only one way to be.
Nora Ephron
Image
Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.
Nora Ephron