At 22, Nora was employed as a reporter for the New York Post and worked there for five years. She worked in the mail room prior to becoming a reporter.
Nora Ephron: Movies are the literature of this generation, and all subsequent generations. It's exciting to know that if you make a movie that in some way works, you're going to reach people, to become part of their autobiography.
Nora Ephron: So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.
Nora Ephron: I finally figured out that if there are circumstances in which you can have the best sex of your life in your 60s, they would be if you had never had sex before.