Writer, director, and producer Nora Ephron "is arguably one of the most powerful women in Hollywood," according to Noreen Taylor in the London Times. In her dozen screenplays and half-dozen directorial works, Ephron has established herself as a savvy, sassy witness of how it feels to be a woman in the late twentieth century. The creator and purveyor of movies about women with guts, as in Silkwood and This Is My life, Ephron is also a humorous chronicler of the dating and mating game, the writer-director of "old-fashioned romantic comedies primarily aimed at women," as Bonnie Rothman Morris stated in the New York Women in Film and Television newsletter.

"Ephron refreshingly stands out as the foremost advocate of mind-meld," Ginia Bellafante declared in a Time magazine review of Ephron's 1998 movie, You've Got Mail. "For her, it seems, true love exists when there is a complete compatibility of intellect...