Rosemary Mahoney quotes

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. (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. View quote
Rosemary Mahoney
Most of us who have healthy eyesight are extremely attached to our vision, often without being conscious that we are. We depend heavily on our eyes, and yet we rarely give them a second thought. I, at least, am this way. The physical world is almost hyper-vivid to me. View quote
Rosemary Mahoney
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored. View quote
Rosemary Mahoney
I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends. View quote
Rosemary Mahoney
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. View quote
Rosemary Mahoney
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. View quote
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 general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means. View quote
Rosemary Mahoney
Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty. View quote
Rosemary Mahoney
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person. View quote
Rosemary Mahoney