All Rosemary Mahoney Quotes
- Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty. Dirty
- The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others. Disproving
- I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person… Effect
- 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… Blind
- A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille Without Borders, came from the… Blind
- Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear… Aggression
- One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This… Blind
- I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends. Athletic
- As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents. Adolescent
- My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to… Believed
- The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan… Become Something
- Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced… Activity
- The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of… Blue
- Most of us who have healthy eyesight are extremely attached to our vision, often without being conscious that we are. We depend heavily on our… Attached
- If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention… Almost Immediately
- I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I… Ammunition
- I am not afraid to die. I simply do not want to. Afraid
- When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went… Coast
- 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 they… America