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.

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.

... the more I seek, the less I find.

Life's Journeys Inward seeking moves towards being-time Outward seeking journies among life's ornaments

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.

We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well, he exits in November.

Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.