Norah Vincent famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is a time in a boyâ€™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 #Sweetness
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 #Different #Speech
Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
-- Norah Vincent

#Prayer #Real #Competition
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
-- Norah Vincent

#Want #Boots #Want To Be Happy
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 #Want
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
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
-- Norah Vincent

#Differences #Tolerance #Approval
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

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.
I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.
Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.
They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.
Is love the sweetness of flowers?
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

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