“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe
“Our bodies belonged to us. Poor, disabled, it didn’t matter. These were our bodies, and we had the right to “decide what to do with them. It was as if they were just taking our bodies from us, as if we didn’t even belong to ourselves.”
― Take My Hand
― Take My Hand
“Communities designed with just one kind of person in mind isolate those of us defying our narrow definition of personhood.”
― Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
― Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
“It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They place the burden on me to step out of my world and reach into theirs”
― Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
― Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
“Our bodies belonged to us. Poor, disabled, it didn’t matter. These were our bodies, and we had the right to decide what to do with them.”
― Take My Hand
― Take My Hand
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