People who dislike Oprah's Book Club dislike it for the same reason that they dislike Barnes & Noble. The fact that the… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Though I am by no means as doctrinaire as I once was about political and social matters, I'm still a libertarian fiscal… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Among people who have suffered, politics is never a pose adopted for its facile rectitude. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Prozac makes you feel better by disabling those crippling doubts and inhibitions that are the hallmarks of despondency, but it often does… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Every day I have people staring at me because I don't look like I'm supposed to. In a room full of women,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
It's hardly propaganda to say that people who target innocents are evil. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
It took MS to teach me an invaluable lesson, one that many people think has made me a conservative, but which I… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
War alone, however anathema it may seem on principle to the pacifist contingent, can secure a reprieve for the tortured Iraqi people… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Stupidity always has been the unfortunate side effect of too much privilege. Nowhere has this been truer than in the United States,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
People are selfish. What's more, they aren't, for the most part, very interested in ideals. They're interested in themselves, not the truth… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The first thing most people say to themselves when they're diagnosed with a serious disease is, 'Why me?' It's a knee-jerk human… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
