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“You don't have to want death in order to prepare for it.”

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Nancy Mairs was an American author known for her candid writing about chronic pain and physical disability. Her works delve into personal identity, body image, and societal stereotypes about people with disabilities. more

“I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the most daunting barrier for most people with physical impairments, because it, even more than flights of steps or elevators without braille, prevents them from participating fully in the ordinary world, where most of life's satisfactions dwell.”

People World Self Felt Steps Normal Ordinary Satisfaction Flight Barriers Disability Outsiders Participating Elevators Normality Ordinary World Braille

Author:Nancy Mairs

“no one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding that they be made perfect. ... If it is both possible and pleasant for me and my kind to enter, the world will become a livelier place. You'll see.”

Ifs World Kind Made Perfect Views Our Lives Pleasant Impediments Insisting

Book:Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

Source: Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

“people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume.”

People Seems Half Fate Assuming Fearful Hostile

Book:Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

Source: Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

“The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.”

Ifs Wells May Long Enough Facts Illness Minorities Warning

Book:Carnal Acts: Essays

Source: Carnal Acts: Essays

“physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.”

Talking Walking Disease Illness Instance Disability Embodiment

Book:Carnal Acts: Essays

Source: Carnal Acts: Essays

“I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.”

Gun Careful Be Careful

Author:Matt Groening

“A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.”

Lines

Author:Nancy Mairs

“That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.”

Knows Winning Trouble Irony Honorable

Book:Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer

Source: Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer

“our lives are stories we tell ourselves.”

Life Stories Our Lives

Author:Nancy Mairs

“In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.”

Firsts Hard Practice Heard Communication Arms Listening Understood Breasts Terrified Craving

Book:Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

Source: Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled

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