Nora Ephron Quotes

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.

Still...you turn me on

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.

Love and sex and whatever, they are - different. I could say I'm in love with someone who is 90 years old and teaches acting and lives in Ohio.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

If we're friends with someone and attracted to them, we're going to want to take it further.

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

I think that a woman should be in love. I think that love makes the sex greater. Or even if you just really, really like that person.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?

Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.

Sex to save the friendship? Well if we have to we have to.

Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex!

People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex.

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

Love is not necessary for sex.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy