Ephron

Ephron is a Jewish surname; notable people with this name include:

  • A family of American writers:
    • Henry Ephron (1911–1992), father
    • Phoebe Ephron (1914–1971), mother
    • Amy Ephron (born 1952), daughter
    • Delia Ephron (born 1944), daughter
    • Hallie Ephron (born 1948), daughter, sometimes writes as G. H. Ephron
    • Nora Ephron (1941–2012), daughter
  • Theron Ephron Catlin (1878–1960), American politician from Missouri

Famous quotes containing the word ephron:

    The women’s liberation movement at this point in history makes the American Communist Party of the 1930s look like a monolith.
    —Nora Ephron (b. 1941)

    It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, “They lived happily ever after” and the following quarter-century warning that they’ll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.
    —Nora Ephron (b. 1941)

    The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility—and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is saying ... it is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.
    —Nora Ephron (b. 1941)