“People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.” PeopleWorldWantMindStillsBodyUsedMy FriendsDivorceFleshMaryQuadriplegics Author:Anne Finger
“With the rise of industrialism, words like 'normal' and 'defective,' words that had once only been used to refer to things, began to be used to refer to people. ... In the industrial age, a new degree of uniformity was expected of people. The rhythms and pacing of life could no longer be organic. People became expected to function like things.” PeopleAgeUsedDegreesNormalFunctionExpectedRhythmUniformityDefectivePacing Author:Anne Finger
