The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Kennedy. In 1994 Nora Ephron was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award. Her sisters Delia and Amy are also screenwriters.

Ephron is best known for her romantic comedies and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay): for Silkwood When Harry Met Sally. She sometimes wrote with her sister Delia Ephron.