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

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.

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.

. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .

Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

Myself and Jamie Moffat did not agree on everything but he always knew I had the experience.

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.