Disability Intimacy Quotes

“You don’t retell John’s story; you say John told you a great story and urge people to ask him about it.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

“Intimacy is more than romantic and sexual intimacy. Intimacy can be just looking at someone because you know what they’re going through. Just this intimate connection of understanding and comfort.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

“The world asks us to be quieter”
― Alice Wong, Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

“For years”
― Alice Wong, Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

“I was foolish and still believed that you believed in the words you would spout about love and friendship and how much I meant to you. I wish you could have shown up for me, for us, for yourself. I wish you could have been able to turn and face us, even if just to say goodbye, even if just to help close the wounds, both mine and yours. Every time I think of you, I think of the cowardice of shame and the cruelty of silence. Every time I think about you, I remember how mean you were…and how much I loved you.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire