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Nancy Mairs Quotes - Page 2

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

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

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."

Nancy Mairs
Thinking, Differences, Being Different

Weddings in our society seem designed to reduce the bride and groom to precisely the condition of those who, because they 'lack sufficient use of reason,' are 'incapable of contracting marriage,' according to canon law.

Nancy Mairs
Law, Use, Our Society

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

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

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

Nancy Mairs
Death, Order, Want

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