Claudia

“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters

“What worries me most about the proposals for legalized assisted suicide is their veneer of beneficence—the medical determination that for a given individual, suicide is reasonable or right. It is not about autonomy but about nondisabled people telling us what’s good for us. In the discussion that follows, I argue that choice is illusory in a context of pervasive inequality. Choices are structured by oppression. We shouldn’t offer assistance with suicide until we all have the assistance we need to get out of bed in the morning and live a good life. Common causes of suicidality—dependence, institutional confinement, being a burden—are entirely curable.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

“Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.”
― G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw