Julianne Lepp

“They were not medical problems to rehabilitate. We were not medical problems. I was never going to undo the damage polio had done to my nerve cells and walk again, nor was this my goal. The disabled veterans coming home from the Vietnam War were never going to grow their limbs back or heal their spinal cords and walk again. My friends with muscular dystrophy were never going to not have been born with muscular dystrophy. Accidents, illnesses, genetic conditions, neurological disorders, and aging are facts of the human condition, just as much as race or sex.”
― Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

“Instead of disability as the limitation, what if a lack of imagination was the actual barrier?”
― Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body