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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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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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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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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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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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I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
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I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.
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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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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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…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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