Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Norah Vincent

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Norah Vincent.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent is an American writer. She attended Williams College, where she graduated with a BA in philosophy in 1990. Vincent was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine The Advocate. She has also been a columnist for The Village Voice and Salon.com. Her writing have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, New York Post, The Washington Post and many more periodicals around the country.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
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.
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
People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out
I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
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.
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
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