Rosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoneyis an American non-fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 January 1961
CountryUnited States of America
blind blindness cultures curse god people perceived remarkable second terrible
To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.
lifts revealed
There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.
constantly trying
As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.
anyone brother call god morning school sent shoes
My mother was not what anyone would call sweet, and she wasn't conventional. When my brother couldn't find his shoes one morning, she said, 'Oh, for God's sake, it won't kill him not to have shoes for a day,' and sent him to school without them.
atlantic avid england grew including various
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 various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee.
amount certain guess might oddly time tough wasted worrying writer
I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in the first place, and to write things that might be controversial. I've wasted a lot of time worrying about it: am I tough enough to do it? Well, I guess, or I wouldn't have done it. The day it's too difficult for me, I guess I'll stop.
I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.
morning procrastination writing
I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.
moving color forward-in-life
I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.
self miserable blind
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
athletic students good-students
I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
sight perception slick
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses.
thinking mets memoir
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 or time had on you.
lying heart witness
The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.