"You're telling me that your accomplishments come by your being like everyone else in the world?" Baba's hand motioned to the City's children; it wouldn't take much to accomplish more than they had, but that was a whole different story. "You're telling me that it's normal to be a doctor, scientist, and engineer - scientist with one or the other, yes, but all three together? This is normal? Your physical body can and will give you accomplishments if you do not hide it away, but there is no way you can hide behind your intelligence and think you are not different. Your intelligence makes you different, big boy, and you might as well own up to that one too."
Her eyes narrowed slightly as she took a step closer. "I know what I can be. I've seen it, and been it, and I know what others can be. You're allowing your shame to hold you back, to pin you to some ideal that isn't who you are. Your physicality as much as your mentality is who you are, to ignore one in favor of another because you are ashamed or afraid is not something to be proud of. It is disrespectful to yourself, and it is sad."