Цитаты из книги Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Exploded Views)

I have no fairy godmother because i have no need of one. I am not waiting for an unconventional white knight to come crashing up a causeway to my castle because i have seen the castle and its darkest heart and nothing in it scares me anymore. I have no need of rescue. I want more than stories that posit the strong as…

people will project onto you the fantasies whose reality they most long to see confirmed. They will love you if you reflect those fantasies back to them

the key is that we need to stop thinking of those less fortunate as being so because of some specific circumstance [disability, say] and more because of structural inequalities that the 'more fortunate' continue to uphold no matter how much money they give away