Norah Vincent Quotes

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Norah Vincent

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 20, 1968

Prozac makes you feel better by disabling those crippling doubts and inhibitions that are the hallmarks of despondency, but it often does so at the expense of your better judgment. You stop over-analyzing, but you also stop thinking things through, and that can precipitate some pretty bad behavior from otherwise mild-mannered people.

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Antidepressants are not the devil, but they are certainly not a panacea either. They were never meant to be the lazy person's spiritual aspirin, designed to make bad days a thing of the past.

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In 'Adeline,' I did what I had done so often before. I disappeared into someone else, and I emerged as myself.

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It was emotionally exhausting to be an impostor, and also an impostor of the opposite sex. That's what most transsexuals feel before they make the transition. When I started, I'd thought that gender had to do with costumes and haircuts.

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I didn't understand that there was some mental component of how you view yourself in terms of gender that's deeply embedded in your brain and that you can't just pull that out and not expect trouble.

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I was always told that I presented myself as masculine, but I always felt deeply feminine inside.

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Every day I have people staring at me because I don't look like I'm supposed to. In a room full of women, I don't feel the same as them.

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I learned that gender identity runs very deep in all of us, very near the center of our sense of self and messing with it can have dire consequences.

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I am not a bigot, as I have said several times in my articles.

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I don't share the prevailing orthodox opinion that transsexuals are members of the opposite sex simply because they have had surgery and taken hormones.

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Among people who have suffered, politics is never a pose adopted for its facile rectitude.

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When you've renounced all the conveniences whose ungreen prerequisites you so abhor, then you can bemoan the plague of greenhouse gases.

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The liberal special-interest groups that squeal most loudly for their rights are the same ones that decry the military spending that guarantees those rights.

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Good and evil exist and can be meaningfully distinguished from each other by simple criteria.

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It's hardly propaganda to say that people who target innocents are evil.

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Diversity is and always has been a distinctively American practice of which we should be proud. But whether we admit it or not, we are at war with terrorists, and it is not a one-sided war.

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We are a nation of savages.

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Conservatives are all for personal responsibility except, of course, when it comes to their own failures. And they're always in favor of less federal intervention until it comes to their most cherished institutions.

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American conservatism always has been plagued by an irrational distaste for homosexuality, a robust and righteous hate for the sin that cannot help extending to the sinner. And this has made it well-nigh impossible for the right to see anything but corrosive evil in the gay lobby's push for equal access to heterosexual privilege.

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There is no good, objective reason to believe that legalizing gay marriage would adversely affect traditional marriage, just as there is no good reason to believe that restricting marriage to a man and a woman would resuscitate an institution whose problems are human, not cultural.

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