Nora Ephron

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  • “The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again.” -Nora Ephron

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  • “As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren’t even people I would date.” -Nora Ephron

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  • “My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.” -Nora Ephron

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  • “With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child’s problems will never be important enough for a television movie.” -Nora Ephron

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  • “My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.” -Nora Ephron

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  • “Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.” -Nora Ephron

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  • The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again. – Nora Ephron

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