"One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness……" — Rosemary Mahoney
"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 the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil."
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Rosemary Mahoney
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19 Quotes by Rosemary Mahoney
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Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
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The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.
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I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really…
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A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille…
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Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful…
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One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of…
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I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
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As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.
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My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she…
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The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in…
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Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is…
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The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble…
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