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

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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

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

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“Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?”
-- Norah Vincent

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“You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.”
-- Norah Vincent

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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

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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

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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.”
-- Norah Vincent

#Differences Quotes #Tolerance Quotes #Approval 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 Quotes #Gone Quotes #Ability Quotes

“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.”

Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1853). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”, p.183

“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.”