[b]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 if it can clean up the mess in our minds.[/b]
Let’s just say that it hasn’t so far.
I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I’m dead.
It’s got to be a lot easier then.
You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy.
Five will get you ten he’s thinking much the same thing.
It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tenterhooks waiting for the next copy of whatever publication you work at.
You know, if you’re an objectivist. Though sure one suspects even if you’re not.
You’d be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins.
By then though what difference does it make?
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
Some women [like some men] more than others.