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REMEMBERING NORA EPHRON: The Scribe's Greatest Quotes & Movie Moments

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Nora Ephron

On Monday, Nora Ephron surprised everyone (well, first Liz Smith did) by passing away at age 71 after a secret battle with leukemia.

Ephron, who was born in Los Angeles to two playwright parents, later moved to New York City where she became a famed journalist, blogger, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a movie director.

And she did it it all with such humor and seeming ease.

Even when discussing difficult topics such as death, Ephron did so with a realistic wit: "Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God."

Ephron is survived by her husband of 25 years, screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, and two sons from her second husband, Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein.

When speaking to her alma matter Wellesley's graduating class in 1996, Ephron told students, "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." And Ephron herself did just that.

It's difficult to narrow down Ephron's most memorable moments throughout her 50-year-long career because there are too many funny one-liners and poignant monologues to count, but here are some of our top picks from the woman who always said—or wrote—it best.

1986: Ephron turned her divorce from her second husband Carl Bernstein into a book and later film titled "Heartburn."

Ephron turned her divorce from her second husband, Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, into a best-selling novel, “Heartburn,” which she then made into a Mike Nichols-directed movie starring Jack Nicholson as a philandering husband and Meryl Streep as a version of herself.

“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.” ―Nora Ephron, "Heartburn"

Watch the film's trailer below.



1989: Ephron became famous for her romantic comedies after the success of "When Harry Met Sally."

While most remember "When Harry Met Sally" for Meg Ryan's table-pounding "I'll have what she's having" fake orgasm scene, it is the below heartfelt ending to the film that showcases Ephron's realistic yet swoon-worthy romantic dialogue.

"I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." —Harry, "When Harry Met Sally"



2003: Ephron discusses being an intern for JFK in "All the President's Girls," an essay for The New York Times.

In 1961, Ephron was an intern in the J.F.K. White House. In an essay for The New York Times, she recalls she was probably the only intern that President John F. Kennedy had never hit on.

"Which brings me to my crucial encounter with J.F.K., the one that no one at the Kennedy Library has come to ask me about. It was a Friday afternoon, and because I had nowhere to sit (see above) and nothing to do (ditto) I decided to go out and watch the president leave by helicopter for a weekend in Hyannisport. It was a beautiful day, and I stood out under the portico overlooking the Rose Garden, just outside the Oval Office. The helicopter landed. The noise was deafening. The wind from the chopper blades was blowing hard (although my permanent wave kept my hair stuck tight to my head). And then suddenly, instead of coming out of the living quarters, the president emerged from his office and walked right past me to get to the helicopter. He turned. He saw me. He recognized me. The noise was deafening but he spoke to me. I couldn't hear a thing, but I read his lips, and I'm pretty sure what he said was, ''How are you coming along?'' But I wasn't positive. So I replied as best I could. ''What?'' I said.

And that was it. He turned and went off to the helicopter and I went back to standing around the White House until the summer was over."



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