Nora Ephron

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

— Nora Ephron

#empowerment #self-determination #women #courage

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

— Nora Ephron

#humor #love #food

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. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#fall #new-york-city #love

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. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#marriage #singles #women #marriage

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. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#dark-side #die #end #finish #first

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? ↗

— Nora Ephron

#movies

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

— Nora Ephron

#humor

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. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#humorous #skinny #humor

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#men #summer #men

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#humor