Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent is an American writer. She was born in Detroit, Michigan on September 20, 1968 She moved with her family to England in 1979 and attended the American School in London, where she graduated in 1986. She went on to attend Williams College where she graduated with a BA in Philosophy in 1990. Vincent was a weekly columnist for The Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine The...
differences tolerance approval
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
exactly talking
It's not the timbre but the intonation. You're a questioner. You don't have the sense that you know exactly what you're talking about.
changing country customs foreign
It was mad. It was like changing the channel, or going to a foreign country where the customs are highlighted because they're not your customs.
face held job passing people respect took treated
They took people at face value. If you did your job or held up your end, and treated them with the passing respect they accorded you, you were all right.
elemental experience far felt finding kept
As you will see, being Ned was often an uncomfortable and alienating experience, and far from finding myself in him, I usually felt kept from myself in some elemental way.
care esteem means women
A lot of men's bluster is really indicating how much the esteem of women means to them, and not how little. I was surprised, too, to find that men care as much as they do.
prayer real competition
Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
men people want
People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out
want boots want-to-be-happy
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
thinking privilege being-a-woman
I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.
men different speech
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.
boys gone sweetness
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.