429 Quotes by Nora Ephron

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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."[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.

As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.

I love trash. I have never believed that kitsch kills. I tell you this, so you will understand that my antipathy toward 'Love Story' is not because I am immune to either sentimentality or garbage, two qualities the book possesses in abundance. When I read 'Love Story', and I cried, in much the same way that I cry from onions, involuntarily and with great irritation, I was deeply offended...

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.