Disability Quote by George will

“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies like mine are ignored or dismissed or derided. People…

— Roxane Gay

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.

— Rain Dove

“The body is a physical machine that can be expressive by nature and the culture around it”

— Steve Paxton

“You want to possess my body, don't you?" "Girl, there's a lot of things I want to do to your body, but that isn't…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“-Do you want to posses my body? -"I want to do many things to your body but that's not one of them”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "Do you want to possess my body?" "I want to do a lot…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded…

— Golda Poretsky

“I got used to it, in a way, being this sack of skin full of problems, because having a body doesn't give you the…

— Catherine Lacey

I not only have a body; I am this body.

— Gabriel Marcel

“When you hear nothing about the body, he suggests, you stop listening to it, and feeling it; you stop experiencing it as a worthy,…

— Caroline Knapp

“We now experience the daily need to defend our self-concepts rather than our bodies.”

— Michael A. Singer

“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies like mine are ignored or dismissed or derided.”

— Roxane Gay