The Most of Nora Ephron Quotes

“I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction; there is only narrative.”
― Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron: The ultimate anthology

“With hindsight, of course, I can see how brilliantly institutionalized the sexism was at Newsweek. For every man, an inferior woman. For every male writer, a female drone. For every flamboyant inventor of a meaningless-but-unknown detail, a young drudge who could be counted on to fill it in.”
― Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron: The ultimate anthology

“Parenting was not simply about raising a child, it was about transforming a child, force-feeding it like a foie gras goose, altering, modifying, modulating, manipulating, smoothing out, improving. (Interestingly, the culture came to believe in the perfectibility of the child just as it also came to believe in the conflicting theory that virtually everything in human nature was genetic—thus proving that whoever said that a sign of intelligence was the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts simultaneously did not know what he was talking about.)”
― Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron: The ultimate anthology

“Bellport. A podium.”
― Nora Ephron, The Most of Nora Ephron: The ultimate anthology