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You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.
Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
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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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Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.
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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.
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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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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
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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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I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.
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People have only one way to be.
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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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It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.
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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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Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
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I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.
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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 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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What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?
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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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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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