"The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."

“It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is not for them to adapt to the dominant and dominating world of the so-called non-disabled. It is for us to adapt our understanding of a common humanity; to learn of the richness of how human life is diverse; to recognize the presence of disability in our human midst as an enrichment of our diversity.”

“When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.”

“Disability is the inability to see ability.”

Source : Twitter post from May 28, 2012

“The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”

Source : Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

“Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.”

“Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.”

“I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.”

“Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is”