To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
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. — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
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… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers, a freakishly… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
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… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses. — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
