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Norah Vincent


Born
in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
September 20, 1968

Died
July 06, 2022

Genre
Psychology, Biography, Nonfiction

Influences
George Orwell, Henry Miller, Andrea Dworkin, Hunter Thompson


Norah Vincent was a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies from its 2001 inception to 2003. As a freelance journalist, Vincent wrote columns for Salon, The Advocate, the Los Angeles Times, and The Village Voice. Her essays, columns and reviews appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Post and many more regional newspapers around the country. In 2003 she took a leave from writing her nationally syndicated political opinion columns in order to write her New York Times bestselling book Self-Made Man, the story of a woman living, working and dating in drag as a man.

Vincent held a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Williams College. Prior to her death she lived in New York City ...more

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“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
tags: conformity, gender-stereotypes, loss, maleness, masculinity, tenderness
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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.”
― Norah Vincent
tags: addiction, anxiety, borderline-personality-disorder, depression, mental-health, mental-illness, ocd, recovery
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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.”
― Norah Vincent
tags: anxiety, bipolar-disorder, borderline-personality-disorder, depression, healing, mental-health, mental-illness, recovery, sadness
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