I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict. . . … - Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron

I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict. . . . ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

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When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

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And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

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Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

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