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The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.

I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn't be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access.

The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.

You can really do amazing things in a wheelchair. It's very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but you can even go up and down stairs in a wheelchair.

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.