Norah Vincent Quotes

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.

Norah Vincent

• Female
• Communicate
• Shortcomings

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• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • High
  • Morning
  • Cost

• People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Taken
  • Sometimes

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Broken

• I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Self

• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Republican
  • Voting

• All my life, everything has been a contest.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Life

• I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Want
  • Information
  • Autobiography

• What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • She
  • Today
  • Child

• I think everybody has their own process as a leader, and I think for me it's ever-evolving.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Leader
  • I Think
  • Everybody

• It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Self
  • Talk
  • Hypocrisy

• Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Music
  • Communicate
  • Transcend

• You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Freedom
  • Movies
  • Poem

• 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.

  

  Norah Vincent
  • Female
  • Communicate
  • Shortcomings