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Nora Ephron: Never Make It a Tuna Melt, Never Pass a Great Cookie
Truly the heroine of her own life
- We lost Nora Ephron.And it is all of our loss because she was of us.She knew what it meant to be human. What it meant to be a woman."...and we're all trying so hard to be healthy and thin in an era where there is the greatest bread in the world..." is why I loved Nora Ephron.I don't know how to quantify the influence Nora Ephron had on me. She made it okay to be sharp and realistic, a little bitter at moments, but always with a strong sense of humor and the ridiculous. She knew people better than most of us knew ourselves. She knew the way we hung in our personality bags and she knew the way we sometimes burst out of those bags. She elevated women's stories, women's place, the genre of romcom and her own special style of humor to a top tier. She and her voice will be sorely, sorely missed.Here are some of my favorite quotes from her and lovely things people have said about her influence...
- On the CBS Morning Show I was so touched by Charlie Rose's tribute.
His voice shook as he shared how much he admired her, and especially that he so much wanted her to like him, at which point his voice broke. I think that is the essence right there. But so was the list of things she'd miss, and how he got that she so understood what it means to be human. - Basically, my raison d'etre in large part:
“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.”
― Nora Ephron
The full quote:
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”
― Nora Ephron - Although not quite there yet, I hear this, completely:“When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman - Truth:“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.”
― Nora Ephron - Being human and feeling that, that amazing feeling of being a part of the human race:“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn - On heartbreak, and that choice you know you have to carry on or...“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn - I wish I'd heard her say this when I was 25...
“Oh, 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 Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman - People were so influenced by her, and in Nora Ephron's case, that was good.
The great Nora Ephron passed away yesterday. In 2010, she wrote a list of things she won't & will miss: bit.ly/Mzsx9X
RT @washingtonpost: Remembering Nora Ephron: "Nora goes to the supermarket & uses it for material:'' wapo.st/LeHKKD http://pic.twitter.com/1Cc7YrVl
Wellesley College remembers filmmaker Nora Ephron: WELLESLEY - Nora Ephron is being remembered by her alma mater... bit.ly/NNp1sP- Here, in my opinion, someone really got Nora, although, even she admits in her fantasies nobody loves her for her mind.
RT @ejrawitsch: I'm unimpressed that the NYT obituary for Nora Ephron begins by celebrating how she kept her looks as she aged. Really? That's her legacy?!- And finally, a song from one of her movies (Heartburn) that really captures the essence of her voice:
