Rosemary Mahoney

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters,…

— Rosemary Mahoney

We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight…

— Rosemary Mahoney

It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable…

— Rosemary Mahoney

My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers,…

— Rosemary Mahoney

When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And…

— Rosemary Mahoney

If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately.…

— Rosemary Mahoney

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I…

— Rosemary Mahoney

When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity…

— Rosemary Mahoney

Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler…

— Rosemary Mahoney

My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.

— Rosemary Mahoney

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and…

— Rosemary Mahoney

Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship,…

— Rosemary Mahoney

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York.…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that…

— Rosemary Mahoney

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of…

— Rosemary Mahoney

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

— Rosemary Mahoney

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear.…

— Rosemary Mahoney

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

— Rosemary Mahoney