Nora Ephron came of age in the 60s when women were burning their bras and forming angry moshpits to fight for equality and justice. It was a hard time to be a female journalist. Against their better judgment, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Walters were forced into bunnysuits to do "investigative" work at Playboy clubs. Most others had their work relegated to the women's section, writing about fashion and recipes. Nora took her work another way. She broke into the magazine business, a place that was friendly to women writers, where she churned out softball pieces about women struggling to have it all. And yet, she decided to take the traditional route, leaving her beloved New York for Washington to play "wife of" to Carl Bernstein, a man of high morals professionally but gutter values when it came to his family. Carl could have been the inspiration for Don Draper on Mad Men . But Nora was no Betty Draper. She left her philandering h...
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