Crazy Salad: Some Things about Women

by Nora Ephron

Book Overview

A glimpse into the absurdities and realities of female existence in the early 1970s discusses the media, politics, the first female umpire, and beauty products. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679640355
• ISBN13: 9780679640356
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

One of my favorite books--a classic

The essays in this book are so good, so interesting, so easy to dive into. Although they were written in the 70s and are about people, places and things that garnered attention in that era, they are still relevant and engaging. I don't know how a person could finish this book and not want to be friends with Ephron--she is funny and interesting and relatable. I like this book so much, I reread it every few years. I can't recommend it highly enough.

If i would have them, I would have been a differant person

It is a very interesting story about how I ended up reading this book. A couple of years ago, when my girlfriends and I were in college, a mutual friend of ours was majoring in women's studies and was required to read this book. We will call this girl Shannon. To say Shannon abhorred it, was an understatement. She was completely horrified by some of the content of the book. She thought the author was a whiney, supercilious snob, who disdained anything that wasn't Manhattan and was thinking of changing her major. She complained so much about it , that all of us girls decided to read it and see what was so bad about it. I could see why she was a little turned off. The author is writing from a liberal standpoint and she has a very dark, snarky sense of humor and she is extremely blunt with the way she says things. But we all agreed, it wasn't bad at all. We all kind of liked it, except for the one about this lady giving herself an abortion in public. (eww)We got a glimpse of what the women's movement was all about and what it meant to her. Our favorite one was a few words about breasts. I don't care what size cup you are, you will bust out laughing. If you don't read anything else, read this one. It sets up why she just can't completely get into it at the feminist rallies and is kind of fed up with all the crazy things going on in America.(i.e. Watergate, Vietnam ,Jan Morris ,Consciousness Groups ) I like the one about meeting the first woman empire in baseball. Another good one is about her cheesy college reunion and how with all the mistakes she made in life, she was happy she ignored her guidance counselor and became a journalist. And the Pillsbury bake off that left her craving steak. One really annoying thing So I really like this book, and went and bought it at Boarders and the one with Linda Lovelace (she was in the porno ,Deep Throat) was cut out! Ok, if you know anything about the author's life and who she was married to at one point in time, it was a really bad idea for them to cut this one out! They did replace it with a couple of her best from Esquire. . But they still shouldn't of took that one out!!!!!!!!!! Also as funny as it is, she seems kind of like she is trying to pretend to be happy but inwardly is depressed and confused, like she lost someone very important in her life. In the new version of the book, they added this essay called The mink coat. It is all about her mother,who seemed like she was a real pistol. I guess she was also a pretty successful Hollywood screenwriter,who had just died. It actually moved to tears, something that is not easily done. Which cleared some things up for me.

Hilarious Dorothy Parker of the 70's

Ephron's account of the 10th reunion of the Wellesley class of '62 is priceless! A writer sympathetic to the feminist movement, she was never-the-less a reporter first, who strove not to polemicize too much for or against any of the disparate forces which made up the women's movement in the '70's. Her transparent honesty is 90% of what makes it so funny.

I bought it because of the author

Gave this book to my daughter-in-law on the recommendation of my dughter, who says this author is very special....for women. We need all the humor we can get.

Love this book

I read this book years ago and bought it again for my daughter. The piece on breasts is just as hilarious and relevant today (sad to say) as it was when I first read it.