Norah Vincent Quotes

• There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

  Norah Vincent

  Boys, Gone, Ability

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• People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

  Norah Vincent

  Men, People, Weakness

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• Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech.

  Norah Vincent

  Men, Female, Different

  Norah Vincent (2006). “Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man”, p.118, Penguin

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• I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

  Norah Vincent

  Thinking, Privilege, Being A Woman

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• There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

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  Differences, Tolerance, Demand

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• Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

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  Prayer, Real, Athletic

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• You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

  Norah Vincent

  Boots, Want, Want To Be Happy

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