Stella Young

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.