I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?
Nora EphronIt's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.
Nora EphronOh, 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 EphronWe have a game we play when weโre waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.
Nora Ephron