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.
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
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.
... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.
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.
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.
