Norah Vincent Quotes

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

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

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#3. There is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

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#4. He could put up a gruff front and he was no angel, but he was really just trying to hide his sensitivities so that he could hang on to them.

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#5. They would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.

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#6. I could live alone forever if I just had a view of the sea.

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#7. It was the woman's job to be on the defensive, because past experience had taught her to be. It was the guy's job to be on the offensive, because he had no choice. It was that or never meet at all.

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#8. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.

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#9. I was never mean to him, but I participated heartily when the guys teased him.

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#10. Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently

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#11. That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

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

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

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#14. I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

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#15. 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.

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#16. Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

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#17. 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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