Quotes by Christy Leigh Stewart

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I’m supposed to overcome my disability to make it easier to manage for people who I don’t even want in my life. I have to overcome any physical sensation, any emotional burden, any independent thought.
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People feeling pity for me is as offensive as them feeling inspired by me.
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The magnitude of violence and insidious institutional murder and slavery is not something any human can comprehend and some people are brave enough to keep paying attention after they get their first glimpse.
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A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it’s just more pretentious.
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Sexual and domestic abuse are already romanticized in mainstream media without critical social commentary, if there is any commentary at all. Horror isn’t there for you to consume and enjoy as a sadist, it’s a radical subversion of social taboos made to literally horrify you. It’s made to give you the perspective of victims who constantly have their voices silenced.
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Memoirs are noting more than literary masterbation.
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You need to get down because this place isn’t accessible for high horses.
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Remission is not a cure. It’s an adjective of disability.
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Abortion is no one’s business but the person getting one.The way people practice eugenics is everyone’s business.
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If you want to have an abortion and the fetus happens to be disabled you should have that abortion. Celebrate it. You aren’t making a decision about another life, it’s just a fetus, you are making a decision based about what type of person you think should belong in the world; regardless of how magnanimously your intentions.
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