Delia Ephron Quotes

• I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for what's popular; you're always looking inside for what's true.

  Delia Ephron

  Live By, Can Do

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• New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

  Delia Ephron

  Country, New York, Who I Am

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• Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

  Delia Ephron

  Children, Mean, House

  "The Quotable Mom". Book edited by Kate Rowinski, 2004.

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• in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

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  Boring, Grew Up, Murderer

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog: (Etc.)”, p.55, Penguin

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• I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

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  Giving Up, Worry, Want

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• As for superpower: I wish I could eat a million pastries and not gain weight. I wish I were Pastry Woman.

  Delia Ephron

  Wish, Superpower

  "Amazon Asks: Delia Ephron on Books, Mantras, and the Lure of Pastries". Interview With Sara Nelson, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 9, 2013.

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• One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.

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  Mistake, Shopping, Quarters

  Delia Ephron (1988). “Funny sauce”, Signet

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• There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

  Delia Ephron

  Divorce, Jail, Fantastic

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

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  Moving, Writing, Way

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog: (Etc.)”, p.16, Penguin

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• if you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.

  Delia Ephron

  Family, Dog, Nice

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• One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

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  Movie, Hysteria, Important

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.

  Delia Ephron

  Littles, Six, Spinach

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• Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

  Delia Ephron

  Husband, Wife, Today

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• Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?

  Delia Ephron

  Husband, Night, Sweaters

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

  Delia Ephron

  Architecture, Loser, Los Angeles

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• As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

  Delia Ephron

  Children, Kids, Custody

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• For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.

  Delia Ephron

  Want, What You Want, Ifs

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• Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

  Delia Ephron

  Best Friendship, Want, Clapping

  Delia Ephron (1988). “Funny sauce”, Signet

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• Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

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  Taken, Thirty, Worst

  Delia Ephron (1988). “Funny sauce”, Signet

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• In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

  Delia Ephron

  Nature, Children, Age Difference

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