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People have only one way to be.

Nora Ephron

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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 actually believe in denial.
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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
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The hardest thing about writing is writing.
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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] 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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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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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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[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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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 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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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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Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
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I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?
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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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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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The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
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New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)
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Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.
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So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
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