Best Quote by 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, educated though…

— 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 is restored…

— 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 the opposite…

— Rosemary Mahoney

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

— 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, a freakishly…

— 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 so in…

— Rosemary Mahoney

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

— Rosemary Mahoney

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

— Rosemary Mahoney

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

— Rosemary Mahoney

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

— Rosemary Mahoney

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

— 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 rowed in…

— Rosemary Mahoney