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."
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"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."
"إن الرغبة في الزواج، التي - يؤسفني القول، وأعتقد أنها أساسية وبدائية في النساء - تتبعها على الفور تقريباً دافع أساسي وبدائي مماثل - وهو الرغبة في العودة إلى العزوبية."
Nora Ephron
"One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with."
"من حسنات الطلاق، في بعض الأحيان، أنه يتيح لكِ أن تكوني زوجة أفضل بكثير لزوجكِ التالي، لأن غضبكِ يجد له مستقرًا فلا يتجه نحو من أنتِ معه الآن."
Nora Ephron
"I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain."
"لقد تجاوز زواجي من زوجي الثالث العشرين عامًا الآن. لكن عندما يكون لديك أطفال من شخص تطلقت منه، فإن الطلاق يحدد كل شيء؛ إنه الحقيقة الكامنة، شريحة من الغضب في فطيرة دماغك."
Nora Ephron
"As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date."
"أما عن الرجال المرشحين للرئاسة، فهم ليسوا حتى من أُفكر في مواعدتهم."
Nora Ephron
"I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60."
"نجوت من بلوغ الستين، ولم أكن مبتهجًا ببلوغ الواحدة والستين، وقلّ ابتهاجي ببلوغ الثانية والستين، ولم أستسغ كثيرًا أن أكون في الثالثة والستين، وكرهت كرهًا شديدًا أن أكون في الرابعة والستين، وسأكره أن أكون في الخامسة والستين. لا أُظهر مثل هذه المشاعر شخصيًا؛ فأنا في حضرة الناس مبتهج ومتفائل كـ"بوليانا". لكن الحقيقة الصادقة هي أن تجاوز الستين أمرٌ محزن."
Nora Ephron
"I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think."
"أستخدم تلك القفازات الطبية الضيقة جداً والمعدة للاستعمال مرة واحدة في كل أعمال التقطيع — الفلفل، البصل، الثوم، وما إلى ذلك. أشعر وكأنني السيدة ماكبث تماماً."
Nora Ephron
"Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it."
"سليبليس" كان نصًا كتبه ثلاثة أو أربعة كتاب قبلي، ولم ينجح أبدًا، لكنه كان يحوي نهاية مذهلة على قمة مبنى إمباير ستيت، نهاية كانت تنجح دائمًا، بغض النظر عما سبقها."
Nora Ephron
"I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."
"أسعى لكتابة أدوار نسائية معقدة ومثيرة للاهتمام، تماماً كما هي النساء في حقيقتهن."
Nora Ephron
"I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?"
"يا للأسف الشديد أن الحركة النسائية لم تدرك كم كان"
Nora Ephron
"I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends."
Nora Ephron
"I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out."
Nora Ephron
"When you have a baby you set off an explosion in your marriage and when the dust settles your marriage is different from what it was. Not better necessarily not worse necessarily but different."
Nora Ephron
"I'd known since I was a child that I was going to live in New York eventually, and that everything in between would just be an intermission. I'd spent all those years imagining what New York was going to be like. I thought it was going to be the most exciting, magical, fraught-with-possibility place that you could ever live; a place where if you really wanted something you might be able to get it; a place where I'd be surrounded by people I was dying to know; a place where I might be able to become the only thing worth being, a journalist. And I'd turned out to be right."
Nora Ephron
"Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address."
Nora Ephron
"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."
Nora Ephron
When Harry Met Sally
"Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black."
Nora Ephron
"The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over. Enough about that. The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not."
Nora Ephron
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