“I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to cu...” — Stella Young Quote

“I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.”

“It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.”

“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.”

“There are all these languages that keep people in place that conform us to a set of terms. It's why I think the whole idea of identity as something that is something of a straitjacket. That most of us like to think of as natural and innate. That we just find and go, 'Yeah, that's who I am.'”

“I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.”

“But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'”