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Norah Vincent

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Norah Vincent is an American writer.

Vincent was a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies from its 2001 inception to 2003[citation needed]. She has also had columns at Salon.com, The Advocate, the Los Angeles Times, and the Village Voice.

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Books by Norah Vincent

Average rating: 3.23 · 3,740 ratings · 830 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again 3.24 avg rating — 2,572 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin 3.23 avg rating — 1,145 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions	My rating:
	How to Sound Smart: A Quick and Witty Guide by Mjf Books, Chad Conway 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Thy Neighbor 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Norah Vincent

“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

tags: conformity , loss , maleness , masculinity , tenderness

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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, Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man

4 people liked it

“Normal life is nuts. It's a downhill deterioration to death no matter how you spice it along the way, and there's nothing you can do about it. Now, a sane person, when faced when that, would just plunk his ass down at the starting line, or wherever along the way this realization finally came to him, and say, "Are you kidding? I quit. I'll slide the rest of the way or sit here and smoke." It takes a true lunatic, or someone functioning with the critical apparatus of a worker bee, to keep scrabbling up that hill when he knows his destiny is dust. But that us what is required. Go on.”
― Norah Vincent, Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

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