Home / Authors / Nancy Mairs

Nancy Mairs Quotes

Author

Nancy Mairs was an American author known for her candid writing about chronic pain and physical disability. Her works delve into personal identity, body image, and societal stereotypes about people with disabilities.

Filter quotes by topic

All Children Ifs World Our Lives Kind People Wells Writing Birth Conditions Different Disability Disease Doe Enough Firsts God Illness Lines Listening

Famous Nancy Mairs Quotes

“If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.”

Ifs Children Ideas Today Baby

Book:Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal

Source: Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal

“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.”

Ifs World Kind Made Perfect Views Our Lives Pleasant Impediments Insisting

Book:Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

Source: Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

“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.”

Ifs Wells May Long Enough Facts Illness Minorities Warning

Book:Carnal Acts: Essays

Source: Carnal Acts: Essays

“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.”

Ifs Feels Book Dream School Middle Havens Clothes Holiday Publish Malls

Book:Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer

Source: Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer

“Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And, life-threatening though my vision seemed, I would not repudiate it: "Sometimes I think I shall die from being different even as I cling to the difference fiercely."”

Ifs Thinking Stills Different Sometimes Dies Differences Vision Alive Conformity Threatening Being Different Non Conformity

Author:Nancy Mairs

About the Author

Born: July 23, 1943
Died: December 3, 2016
Known for: Author
Quotes: 31

Books & Sources

Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and RenewalRelated source material

Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) WriterRelated source material

Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the NondisabledRelated source material

Carnal Acts: EssaysRelated source material

PlaintextRelated source material

Remembering The Bone HouseRelated source material

Similar Authors

Bob MelvinBrowse related quotes
Michael JacksonBrowse related quotes
Viktoria ModestaBrowse related quotes
Norma BeckerBrowse related quotes
Charlotte MasonBrowse related quotes
Annie DillardBrowse related quotes
Salman RushdieBrowse related quotes
Anne LamottBrowse related quotes
Francois BoucherBrowse related quotes
Robert M. HenselBrowse related quotes