Atlas Quote 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.

— Nancy Mairs

If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.

— Nancy Mairs

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

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

I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the…

— Nancy Mairs

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

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

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

— Nancy Mairs

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

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

— Nancy Mairs

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

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