Nora Ephron

[tim]

Almost ten years ago, I posted this to LiveJournal:

From Nora Ephron's essay about the tenth Wellesley Class of '62 reunion, in _Crazy Salad_:

I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity that school stuck us with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. Wellesley was not alone in encouraging this for its students, but it always seemed to sad that a school that could have done so much for women put so much energy into the one area women should be educated out of. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

And she summarizes everything I've thought about Wellesley, 35 years before I even got there.

Today, Ms. Ephron died. May she rest in snark, as peace would probably bore her, as it would me.

(Oh yeah and I heard she did some movies or something.)