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

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.
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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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…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.
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We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.
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I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
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in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.
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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
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Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. - Sleepless in Seattle
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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
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You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.
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Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is first lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
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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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I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.
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Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
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If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.
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American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
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I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.
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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.
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One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!
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My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
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