10 Quotes by Amanda Leduc

It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that means I don't have to."

...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life.

Why, in all of these stories about someone who wants to be something or someone else, was it always the individual who needed to change, and never the world?

Or perhaps it’s not the heartbreak that scares her, but the possibility. The possibility of a heart more than whole, or a life that reaches so far beyond what’s expected that you can’t see where it ends and forever begins.

Disability isn’t visited on us in response to a grand, overarching narrative plan, but rather is a lived, complex reality that reimagines the very nature of how we move through and occupy space.

Being disabled puts us on a level of intimacy with our own bodies that in some ways remains, ironically, inaccessible to the able-bodied.

It’s hard, too, to acknowledge that I feel this way while also simultaneously existing in a place of enormous privilege. My disability affects all aspects of my life, but it is also relatively mild.

Disability is not a monolith – every disabled person’s experience in the world is different, and the way that we all navigate the world is likewise varied and complex.

Give me a story about a disabled man or woman who learns to navigate the world and teaches the world, in turn, to navigates its own way around the disabled body. Give me power and also weakness, struggle but also reams of joy. Our lives are made of this fabric – our stories deserve nothing less.