Nancy Mairs Quotes

• Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

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  Prayer, Believe, Listening

  Nancy Mairs (1993). “Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

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  Talking, Disease, Embodiment

  Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

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• Me sentía permanentemente exiliado de la "normalidad". Ya sea impuesta por uno mismo o por la sociedad, esta condición de marginado -y no la discapacidad en sí- constituye la barrera más desalentadora para la mayoría de las personas con deficiencias físicas, porque, incluso más que los tramos de escaleras o los ascensores sin braille, les impide participar plenamente en el mundo ordinario, donde residen la mayoría de las satisfacciones de la vida.

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  Self, Ordinary World, People

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• Las personas que parecen más hostiles a mi presencia son las que más temen mi destino. Y como su miedo les mantiene emocionalmente distantes de mí, son los que menos probabilidades tienen de enterarse de que mi vida no es ni la mitad de triste de lo que suponen.

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  Fate, People, Half

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

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  People, Looks, Poverty

  Nancy Mairs (1993). “Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I will write myself into well-being.

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  Writing, Diaries, Well Being

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• no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding that they be made perfect. ... If it is both possible and pleasant for me and my kind to enter, the world will become a livelier place. You'll see.

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  Views, Perfect, World

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.106, Beacon Press

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• God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.

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  God, Knights, Dragons

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• My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

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  Writing, Erotic, Want

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• In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.

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  Communication, Practice, Listening

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.

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  Dream, Book, School

  Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

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  Writing, Practice, Riding

  Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.

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  Letting Go, Angel, World

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• The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

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  Long, Minorities, Warning

  Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

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• One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.

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  Children, Blessing, Territory

  Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.196, Beacon Press

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• To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously.

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  Pain, Blessed, Views

  Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

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• our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

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  Life, Stories, Our Lives

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• A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.

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  Líneas

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• Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

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  Children, Car, Soul

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• From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

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  Class, Two, Different

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• Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

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  Two, Fiction, Atlas

  Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

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  Female, Grammar

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• This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything in my experience, which says: God dwells where I dwell. Period.

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  God, Crazy, Splits

  Nancy Mairs (1993). “Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• La caridad que empieza en casa no puede descansar allí, sino que arrastra inexorablemente a uno a cruzar el umbral y salir del porche y bajar a la calle y así salir y salir y salir y salir al mundo que se convierte en el hogar donde empieza la caridad hasta que se hace posible, al menos en teoría, amar a toda la creación con la misma paciencia, afecto y diversión que uno practicó primero, entre pucheros y rabietas, con padres, hermanos, cónyuge e hijos.

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  Children, Sibling, Home

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• You don't have to want death in order to prepare for it.

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  Death, Order, Want

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