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Top 25 Delia Ephron Quotes (2025 Update)

Delia Ephron Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Delia Ephron Quote: “Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.”

2. “Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.”

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Delia Ephron Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Delia Ephron Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Delia Ephron Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Delia Ephron Quote: “I’m planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I’m worried I won’t be able to.”

6. “I’m planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I’m worried I won’t be able to.”

— Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron Quote: “There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.”

7. “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

Delia Ephron Quote: “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?”

8. “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

Delia Ephron Quote: “In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.”

9. “In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.”

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Delia Ephron Quote: “One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.”

10. “One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.”

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Delia Ephron Quote: “Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.”

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

— Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron Quote: “This is an example of why travel is important. It changes perspective. It alters your eyes and ears, puts unexpected notions into your head, provides aha moments.”

12. “This is an example of why travel is important. It changes perspective. It alters your eyes and ears, puts unexpected notions into your head, provides aha moments.”

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Delia Ephron Quote: “You are a long trail through the woods,” she said. “And in the woods people prefer a shortcut.” Our.”

13. “You are a long trail through the woods,” she said. “And in the woods people prefer a shortcut.” Our.”

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Delia Ephron Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Delia Ephron Quote: “As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.”

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

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Delia Ephron Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Delia Ephron Quote: “A man doesn’t recognize his own wife. Because she’s happy.”

17. “A man doesn’t recognize his own wife. Because she’s happy.”

— Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Delia Ephron Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron Quote: “Giving with no expectation of a return is the only way to give,” he said. That is, of course, the absolute truth, although I had not thought of it before.”

20. “Giving with no expectation of a return is the only way to give,” he said. That is, of course, the absolute truth, although I had not thought of it before.”

— Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron Quote: “No one can truly know the answer to the question, What will you do when you lose the person you love?”

21. “No one can truly know the answer to the question, What will you do when you lose the person you love?”

— Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron Quote: “He was my true home. My first safe place.”

22. “He was my true home. My first safe place.”

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Delia Ephron Quote: “Now he wasn’t going to be here to love me or to talk to me. To have conversations with me about everything. Stuff. What was on his mind.”

23. “Now he wasn’t going to be here to love me or to talk to me. To have conversations with me about everything. Stuff. What was on his mind.”

— Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron Quote: “We don’t discuss death. Not that we avoid it. It’s just that here, we’re preoccupied with life.”

24. “We don’t discuss death. Not that we avoid it. It’s just that here, we’re preoccupied with life.”

— Delia Ephron

Delia Ephron Quote: “The silence in the apartment is loud.”

25. “The silence in the apartment is loud.”

— Delia Ephron

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