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 t….

our lives are stories we tell ourselves..

God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become pr….

I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes th….

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening..

Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice..

From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with ….

If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even beg….

I will write myself into well-being..

To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event ….

Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kin….

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience..

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience..

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved….

The charity that begins at home cannot rest there but draws one inexorably over the threshold and off the porch and down the street and so out and ou….

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

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 ….

This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything in my ….

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions..

In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the fir….

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 increasin….