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.

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.

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.

Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types, ” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to guard her reputation for virtue.

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact

She's half mad and three parts drunk.