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

— Nora Ephron

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

— Nora Ephron

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

— Nora Ephron

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

— Nora Ephron

But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn’t share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably. - The D Word

— Nora Ephron

But the truth is you don't always know you're getting a divorce. For years, you're married. Then, one day, the concept of divorce enters your head. It sits there for a while. You lean toward it and then you lean away. You make lists. Furthermore, you calculate how much it will cost. Furthermore, you tote up grievances, and pluses and minuses.

— Nora Ephron

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

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

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

— Nora Ephron

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Sam stat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

— Nora Ephron