"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
Topic(s):
Freedom
More From Nora Ephron
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Freedom
- "Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."― Langston Hughes
- "If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American – our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that."― Jon Stewart
- "If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."― Robert Frost