Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we… — Nancy Mairs Faces Copy Share Image
If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them. — Nancy Mairs Baby Copy Share Image
In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with… — Nancy Mairs Arms Copy Share Image
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be… — Nancy Mairs Acts of love Copy Share Image
I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself -… — Nancy Mairs Barriers Copy Share Image
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,… — Nancy Mairs Disability Copy Share Image
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. — Nancy Mairs Atlas Copy Share Image
Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still… — Nancy Mairs Alive Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win. — Nancy Mairs Honorable Copy Share Image
Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts… — Nancy Mairs Black Copy Share Image
In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience. — Nancy Mairs Female Copy Share Image
This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It… — Nancy Mairs Crazy Copy Share Image
people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally… — Nancy Mairs Assuming Copy Share Image
The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live… — Nancy Mairs Enough Copy Share Image
no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we… — Nancy Mairs Ifs Copy Share Image
Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack… — Nancy Mairs Bride and groom Copy Share Image
If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes… — Nancy Mairs Book Copy Share Image
Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice. — Nancy Mairs Alas Copy Share Image
Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction:… — Nancy Mairs Assembly Copy Share Image
God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives. — Nancy Mairs Angel Copy Share Image
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or… — Nancy Mairs Disease Copy Share Image
