02c. 1976 ADWhen you have a baby you set off an explosion in your marriage and when the dust settles your marriage is different from what it was. Not better necessarily not worse necessarily but different.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
04c. 1976 ADI always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
05c. 1976 ADI buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
06c. 1976 ADI have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'Nora Ephron / quote ↗
07c. 1976 ADI try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
08c. 1976 AD'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
09c. 1976 ADI use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
10c. 1976 ADI survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
11c. 1976 ADAs far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
12c. 1976 ADI have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
13c. 1976 ADOne good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
14c. 1976 ADThe desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.Nora Ephron / quote ↗
