If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive."… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience. — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough,… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share
