In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.

Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled (ed. Beacon Press, 2001) - ISBN: 9780807070024