Nora Ephron Quotes

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.

I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?'

Guys are more apt to test me than they are to test a Charles Barkley. I think I have to go out and prove myself all the time, and that's fine, because I've had to prove myself my whole life.

Girls and boys also face the societal pressure to get married which I find wrong.

In marriage, a woman becomes the weaker sex, even if her husband doesn't want her to be. This happens because of the way society has built the institution.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.

So much of being a woman is telling lies

The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.

When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.