Liz Dannenbaum

“A world built on speed, productivity, more, more, more! and far too few bathrooms (and bathroom breaks) does not consider or care for the actual bodies we live in. In other words, ableism affects all of us, whether we consider ourselves disabled or not.”
― Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

“began to say it aloud with the kind of knowing that seven-year-olds can have: I would become a writer in a cabin in Wyoming.”
― Katherine E. Standefer, Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

“They all want to live “in harmony with nature” before some of them realize, too late, that nature is anything but harmonious”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“Each of us has a “whole,” “unmarred,” “perfect” body that we were meant to have; the paralyzed, autistic, deaf version is just a sadder, lesser version of that original intent. (This tenet is wrapped up in narratives of fat, aging, gender-nonconforming bodies, too, of course.)”
― Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body