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You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.
Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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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.
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Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.
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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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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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The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
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Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
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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.
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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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[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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Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.
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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
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My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.
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When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
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When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle
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I actually believe in denial.
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My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, Everything is copy.
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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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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many... somethings. So, thanks.
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Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
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