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“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

Tara June Winch
“See, pain travels through our family tree like a songline.”
Tara June Winch, The Yield

Jacob Grimm
“You are mine, and I am yours, and no one in the world can alter that.”
Jacob Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Tales

“People ask me, “Have you tried yoga? Kombucha? This special water?” And I don’t have the energy to explain that yes, I’ve tried them. I’ve tried crystals and healing drum circles and prayer and everything. What I want to try is acceptance. I want to see what happens if I can simply accept myself for who I am: battered, broken, hoping for relief, still enduring somehow. I will still take a cure if it’s presented to me, but I am so tired of trying to bargain with the universe for some kind of cure. The price is simply too high to live chasing cures, because in doing so, I’m missing living my life. I know only that in chasing to achieve the person I once was, I will miss the person I have become.”
Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Louise Penny
“Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There’s a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in.”
Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

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