Rosemary Mahoney Quotes

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.