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Top 15 Norah Vincent Quotes (2024 Update)

Norah Vincent Quote: “People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out.”

1. “People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.”

2. “You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?”

4. “Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “There’s a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.”

5. “There’s a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “Did I need medication? Or did I need someone to talk to? Someone, that is, who would do more than charge the going rate for nodding and whip out a prescription pad before the first fifty minutes were up. Was I physiologically depressed? At an innate biochemical disadvantage? Or was reaching for the pad just the way things were done because the doc had been well patronized by the drug reps and had plenty of samples in her file cabinet?”

6. “Did I need medication? Or did I need someone to talk to? Someone, that is, who would do more than charge the going rate for nodding and whip out a prescription pad before the first fifty minutes were up. Was I physiologically depressed? At an innate biochemical disadvantage? Or was reaching for the pad just the way things were done because the doc had been well patronized by the drug reps and had plenty of samples in her file cabinet?”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find the cure. But of course there was no reasonable why, at least not in the present. I was awash in an accumulation of past feelings and future dreads, all similar, at least as far as my brain was concerned, and so, lumped together as one. But nobody can handle a lifetime of experience in one moment. That’s why depression crushes you.”

7. “I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find the cure. But of course there was no reasonable why, at least not in the present. I was awash in an accumulation of past feelings and future dreads, all similar, at least as far as my brain was concerned, and so, lumped together as one. But nobody can handle a lifetime of experience in one moment. That’s why depression crushes you.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “This will sound strange, and yet I’m sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.”

8. “This will sound strange, and yet I’m sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “He could put up a gruff front and he was no angel, but he was really just trying to hide his sensitivities so that he could hang on to them.”

9. “He could put up a gruff front and he was no angel, but he was really just trying to hide his sensitivities so that he could hang on to them.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Norah Vincent Quote: “Happiness is not a reward. It’s a consequence. You have to work at it every day.”

11. “Happiness is not a reward. It’s a consequence. You have to work at it every day.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “If I was lonely, if I was afraid of being alone, then why abandon myself? Why run to someone else looking to give myself the thing that only I could give? I wanted to escape myself because I felt empty, and the emptiness frightened me. But obviously, I was empty because I was always running out, running away. The only way to fill the emptiness was to remain, to take up residence in myself.”

12. “If I was lonely, if I was afraid of being alone, then why abandon myself? Why run to someone else looking to give myself the thing that only I could give? I wanted to escape myself because I felt empty, and the emptiness frightened me. But obviously, I was empty because I was always running out, running away. The only way to fill the emptiness was to remain, to take up residence in myself.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “I was never mean to him, but I participated heartily when the guys teased him.”

13. “I was never mean to him, but I participated heartily when the guys teased him.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “Despair was strength. Despair was the scab and the scar. The walled city in a time of plague. A closed fortification. A sure thing, because it was always safer, less painful to stop trying than it was to repeatedly try and fail. Failure-disappointment-was a poison in my blood. Despair was the antidote.”

14. “Despair was strength. Despair was the scab and the scar. The walled city in a time of plague. A closed fortification. A sure thing, because it was always safer, less painful to stop trying than it was to repeatedly try and fail. Failure-disappointment-was a poison in my blood. Despair was the antidote.”

— Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent Quote: “Adeline, who is the girl that she once was, the bright Victorian girl shut behind dark paneled doors with her thirteen, fifteen, eighteen years of life and a Greek lexicon. She is the girl stopped in time who could not speak or feel at the side of her dead mother’s bed. She keeps the cold, clear information of those days, unclouded by revision or the lies of age.”

15. “Adeline, who is the girl that she once was, the bright Victorian girl shut behind dark paneled doors with her thirteen, fifteen, eighteen years of life and a Greek lexicon. She is the girl stopped in time who could not speak or feel at the side of her dead mother’s bed. She keeps the cold, clear information of those days, unclouded by revision or the lies of age.”

— Norah Vincent

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