If Monica Lewinsky is living proof of anything, it's that suffering is good for the soul. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Because Al Qaeda says it hates the United States, we mistakenly have come to believe that it represents widespread Arab and Muslim… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer? — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
There are at least two circumstances under which journalists have both a right and an obligation to publish details about a public… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
This may be one of the real tragedies of free market capitalism gone awry. The quality of our intellectual life is declining… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
In our fast-food nation, we tend to think that the intellectual life, like everything else, can be had pre-chewed and in bulk… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The feminist establishment has made choice a woman's issue. The Christian right has made life a religious issue. Both have made loyalty… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Americans love a morality tale, especially one that's been taken from real life. We like facile categories of good and bad, and… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Normal life is nuts. It's a downhill deterioration to death no matter how you spice it along the way, and there's nothing… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Smokers, like so many of us, are mavericks when they're healthy but parasites when they're not. They trash their bodies and then expect the… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
Isn't it curious how quickly a conservative becomes a libertarian when he's caught sinning? There's a lesson in that somewhere, if only the Christian… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
The feminist establishment has made choice a woman's issue. The Christian right has made life a religious issue. Both have made loyalty crucial. If… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
The twin causes Bin Laden invokes are Islam and Arab self-determination, and armies rise to serve him. No need to convert or dogmatize. Believers… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
Private academic institutions admit the children of alumni because substantial parts of their operating budgets come from the financial contributions of alumni. — Norah Vincent Copy Share
My gender has roots in my brain, possibly biochemical ones, living very close to the roots of my self-image... Far, far closer than my… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
Practically as soon as the towers hit the ground on Sept. 11, pundits of the left like Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag took advantage… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
Americans love a morality tale, especially one that's been taken from real life. We like facile categories of good and bad, and we like… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
People who dislike Oprah's Book Club dislike it for the same reason that they dislike Barnes & Noble. The fact that the two do… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
The candidates who get themselves elected are illusionists and prevaricators of the first order. We expect this of them. They're a reflection of us,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
I learned that gender identity runs very deep in all of us, very near the center of our sense of self and messing with… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
You've got to lie skillfully to get elected, because you've got to convince a whole zoo of self-involved ciphers that you've got every one… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
Publishers and writers are desperate to cash in on the latest craze, be it baseball, the founding fathers or jihad. Their livelihoods depend on… — Norah Vincent Copy Share
