Words matter. These are the best Rosemary Mahoney Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad.
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.
I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to.
I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn’t perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor.
Writing is not a genteel profession; it’s quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
We always think, ‘Well, for a person who’s blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.’ Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It’s rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.
In ‘A Likely Story,’ I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.
Nobody’s perfect, and to try to pretend you’re perfect is an exhausting fool’s errand.
My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to find faith. She believed in trying things.
My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn’t conventional. When my brother couldn’t find his shoes one morning, she said, ‘Oh, for God’s sake, it won’t kill him not to have shoes for a day,’ and sent him to school without them.
When you hear that China is overcrowded, that’s an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me – a woman no less – pleasure?
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.
One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.
As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.
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.
The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.
There’s as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.
The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: ‘How much money do you make?’ It’s a legitimate question to ask in China.
