Norah Vincent Quotes

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Norah Vincent

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 20, 1968

Gambling is the very embodiment of greed. Greed is its raison d'etre.

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Stupidity always has been the unfortunate side effect of too much privilege. Nowhere has this been truer than in the United States, where people routinely espouse untenable political positions that only a spoiled child would ever entertain.

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I have a lot more sympathy for men. I understand that they too are victims of the so-called patriarchy, that their roles have been as toxic as ours, and that they haven't yet been liberated from them.

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Gay men must bear the responsibility for the spread of AIDS.

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Plagiarism is one of those petty larcenies many of us were more or less guilty of in high school or college or both.

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Mutually assured destruction has always been a deterrent to rogue nations.

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Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race.

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Manhood is a leaden mythology riding on the shoulders of every man.

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Picking fights with or propositioning strangers, betraying friends, lying to family, stealing, cheating and engaging in road rage were things I did with alacrity on Prozac but contemplate now with shame.

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Men often project a sometimes overbearing egotism and entitlement because that's what you have to do when you're not allowed to show weakness and need.

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Practically as soon as the towers hit the ground on Sept. 11, pundits of the left like Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag took advantage of the debacle to trumpet anew their ingrained distaste for American foreign policy.

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My gender has roots in my brain, possibly biochemical ones, living very close to the roots of my self-image... Far, far closer than my race or class or religion or nationality, so close in fact as to be incomparable with those categories.

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Being anti-establishment doesn't make you a particularly deep, cogent or original thinker any more than being traditionalist makes you a slavish dolt.

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The reporting of the news is supposed to be objective, a dispassionate recitation of the facts. But of course it never is and never has been. What's more, it never will or could be.

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The womb is one of the defining features of the female animal. The defining feature of abortion, meanwhile, is a denial or negation of the womb, because its sole purpose is to stop the womb from fulfilling its normal function. Thus abortion is the ultimate negation of the female animal and therefore the ultimate misogynistic act.

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Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts to a denial of the soul or at least of consciousness, awareness, struggle - and a dismissal of everything about the human condition that is not organic, including art, religion, philosophy and love.

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Ours is a country in which you are ill-advised to be a fetus.

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The first thing most people say to themselves when they're diagnosed with a serious disease is, 'Why me?' It's a knee-jerk human response, and I was no exception.

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It took MS to teach me an invaluable lesson, one that many people think has made me a conservative, but which I think has simply made me an adult: The personal is not political. Quite the contrary, the political is personal.

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When the doctor told me I had MS, I suddenly felt the weight of my own and everyone else's expectations lift off my shoulders. So this was why I hadn't done better on the SATs, I thought. This was why I'd dropped out of grad school. This was why I'd been passed over for a promotion.

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