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It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'

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Nora Ephron
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: May 19
Died: 2012
Died: June 26
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So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.
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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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Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.
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Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.
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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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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
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In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.
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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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I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
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You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
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Let's face it: part of being a grownup is that every day you have to choose between going out at night or staying home, and it is one of life's unhappy truths that there is not enough time to do both.
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Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
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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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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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If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other.
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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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Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.
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Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.
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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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Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.
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