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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/if-the-very-thought-of-taking-off-all-your-clothes-in-the-middle-of/)

[Nancy Mairs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-mairs/)

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## More by Nancy Mairs

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/poor-and-afflicted-and-oppressed-people-have-faces-and-we-are/)

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> [If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/if-only-we-could-have-them-back-as-babies-today-now-that-we-have-some/)

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> [In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/in-a-society-that-prates-about-but-seldom-practices-communication-the/)

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> [My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/my-writing-arises-out-of-erotic-impulse-toward-an-other-it-is-an-act/)

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> [I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/i-felt-permanently-exiled-from-normality-whether-imposed-by-self-or/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/physical-disability-looms-pretty-large-in-one-s-life-but-it-doesn-t/)

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> [Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/atlas-shrugged-and-the-fountainhead-doubtless-two-of-the-most/)

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> [Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/do-others-i-wondered-see-things-as-i-do-i-do-not-think-so-for-if-they/)

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> [That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/that-s-the-trouble-with-honorable-mentions-they-let-everyone-know-you/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/out-of-the-new-arrivals-in-our-lives-the-odd-word-stumbled-upon-in-a/)

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> [ In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- \[woman\] can't utter female experience. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/in-the-grammar-of-the-phallus-the-i-i-i-woman-can-t-utter-female/)

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> [This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/this-kind-of-split-makes-me-crazy-this-territorializing-of-the-holy/)

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> [people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/people-who-seem-most-hostile-to-my-presence-are-those-most-fearful-of/)

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> [The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/the-fact-is-that-ours-is-the-only-minority-you-can-join-involuntarily/)

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> [I will write myself into well-being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-mairs/i-will-write-myself-into-well-being/)

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