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Top 20 Nancy Mairs Quotes (2025 Update)

Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

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.”

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

2. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.”

3. “A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.”

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “I will write myself into well-being.”

4. “I will write myself into well-being.”

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

6. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “You don’t have to want death in order to prepare for it.”

7. “You don’t have to want death in order to prepare for it.”

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.”

8. “Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.”

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

9. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

10. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

12. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.”

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

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.””

16. “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.””

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

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

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “That’s the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn’t win.”

18. “That’s the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn’t win.”

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.”

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

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Nancy Mairs Quote: “The capacity to dream beyond the facts of existence into their significance enables us to remember a true past, one that simultaneously reflects and illuminates experience.”

22. “The capacity to dream beyond the facts of existence into their significance enables us to remember a true past, one that simultaneously reflects and illuminates experience.”

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Nancy Mairs Quote: “Only after many years will I recognize that I, too, have survived a loss, and not necessarily intact. The depression and multiple sclerosis awaiting me will suggest that changes in the structural level have already occurred by the time I learn to forgive Daddy for abandoning me without even saying good-bye.”

23. “Only after many years will I recognize that I, too, have survived a loss, and not necessarily intact. The depression and multiple sclerosis awaiting me will suggest that changes in the structural level have already occurred by the time I learn to forgive Daddy for abandoning me without even saying good-bye.”

— Nancy Mairs

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