Remembering Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron told a graduating class at Wellesley College, her alma mater, that women of her generation weren't expected to do much. Ephron may be best known for films, including Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail and Julie and Julia. She grew up in Beverly Hills, and wrote that she was the only summer intern at the Kennedy White House the late President never hit on. She was a journalist, blogger, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and movie director. Nora Ephron, who died yesterday at the age of 71, was also a friend of Rebecca Traister, contributor to the New York Times magazine and author of Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women.