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The major concrete achievement of the women\'s movement of the 1970\'s was the Dutch treat.
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
 Nora Ephron

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
 Nora Ephron
Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
 Nora Ephron
My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy.
 Nora Ephron
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
 Nora Ephron
We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.
 Nora Ephron