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Nora Ephron Quotes

American - Author | May 19, 1941 - June 26, 2012

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

Women Men City Important Washington

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

Best Blame Writing You Movies About

I 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?'

Women People Saying Thought Laugh

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

Food California Up Southern Grew

The one thing my mother did make was what was known at the time as lox and onions and eggs. Now, no one makes it with lox; they make it with nova. That was my mother's specialty, which she cooked on New Year's Day for the Rose Bowl games, which we had a party for every year. It took her about an hour to make scrambled eggs.

Mother Time Day Rose Year Party

I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things.

Women Cooking Think Talking Remember

The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does.

Truth Food Truth Is Mine Marriages

I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.

Medical Think Lady Gloves Disposable

In California, of course, they never break up couples at dinner for fear of what might happen if someone's husband were seated next to someone else's very young girlfriend. But dinners with couples seated next to one another are always deadly dull, which is why there are almost no good dinner parties in the entire state of California.

Good Fear Dinner Husband Someone

If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.

New York Child Book Thank You You

I feel really bad for people who aren't insane over food.

Food People Feel Bad Over Insane

I don't have writer's block, really. I do have times when I can't get the lead, and that is the only part of the story which I have serious trouble with. I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view.

Story View Point Of View Trouble Get

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