"Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas……" — 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 they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married."
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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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One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in…
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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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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And…
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
— Desi Arnaz
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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