For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.