Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

The sole duty of a man is to love his Maker with all his soul.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.

My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

Man's responsibility, then, is to choose his destination; the motive power to bring him there is furnished by the Infinite.

The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.