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Norah Vincent is an American writer born on September 20, 1968. Her works span various fields, including nature, culture, and social issues. Her representative work, 'The Wolf's Shadow,' chronicles her intimate encounters with wildlife, showcasing the relationship between humans and nature.

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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“I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.”

Thinking Privilege Being A Woman

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Born: September 20, 1968
Known for: Writer
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