Norah Vincent quotes
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“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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“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 VincentSource : 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?”
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“You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.”
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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”
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“I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.”
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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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“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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“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
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“I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.”
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“Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.”
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“When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.”
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