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Nancy Mairs Quotes

You don’t have to want death in order to prepare for it Picture Quote #1

A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed Picture Quote #1

Our lives are stories we tell ourselves Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them Picture Quote #1

People who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn’t half so dismal as they assume Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

That’s the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn’t win Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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You don’t have to want death in order to prepare for it (Nancy Mairs Quotes) A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed (Nancy Mairs Quotes) Our lives are stories we tell ourselves (Nancy Mairs Quotes) 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 (Nancy Mairs Quotes) 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 (Nancy Mairs Quotes) 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. (Nancy Mairs Quotes) Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice (Nancy Mairs Quotes) 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 (Nancy Mairs Quotes) If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them (Nancy Mairs Quotes) People who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn’t half so dismal as they assume (Nancy Mairs Quotes) 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 (Nancy Mairs Quotes) That’s the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn’t win (Nancy Mairs Quotes) 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 (Nancy Mairs Quotes) 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 (Nancy Mairs Quotes)