Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults) Quotes

“He insists he doesn’t want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was and to let other parents kill similar babies as they come along and thereby avoid the suffering that comes with lives like mine and satisfy the reasonable preferences of parents for a different kind of child. It has nothing to do with me. I should not feel threatened.”
― Alice Wong - editor, Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): First-Person Stories for Today

“Art isn’t necessarily about beauty. Art is supposed to make you feel something. And I began to realize that my appearance is my art. My body, my face, my scars told a story. My story. - Ariel Henly”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

“There is so much that able-bodied people could learn from the wisdom that often comes with disability. But space needs to be made. Hands need to be reached out. People need to be lifted up.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today