I moved to the Upper West Side because of Nora. She wrote of her love for Zabar's, Café Lalo, Levain Bakery, Gray's Papaya and the Apthorp, so by the time I made my rounds, I felt at home.

I'll always consider these twelve aphorisms some of Nora's wisest words.

You don't have to don the literary equivalent of a Tom Wolfe suit to be published or pretend you're a man, with a man's concerns and a man's voice, to get attention? My mind was officially blown.

Very simply, I always assumed I would be Nora Ephron -- until I realized there already was one.

It's hard to explain what 30 minutes out of the life of someone like Nora means. There was absolutely nothing in it for her. She liked my work, sure, but more than that, she knew how women have to help each other.

“Any of you here who haven’t looked at your elbows lately cause they’re facing the wrong way, go take a look at them because in a few years, you...

Nora Ephron had a lot to say on body image -- to the point that she wrote a book whose title and opening line is: "I feel bad about my neck." Many ...