Nora Ephron, 71

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. ― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

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

Nora Ephron, Essayist, Screenwriter and Director, Dies at 71
by Charles McGrath, The New York Times, June 26, 2012