Catalyst Quote by Barbara Boxer

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

— Chuck Close

My whole career has been an Ann Coulter roast.

— Ann Coulter

I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to…

— Portia de Rossi

“The reality that the (intellectually disabled) person is a version of myself is one from which so much can be learned and gained, and…

— Wolf Wolfensberger

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

— Eminem

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm…

— Eminem

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

— Herbie Hancock

I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and it took me getting out into the real world and understanding what I…

— Brianna Wu

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

— Tori Amos

I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so…

— Jeanette Winterson

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

— Pamela Stephenson

There are millions of people out there ignoring disabilities and accomplishing incredible feats. I learned you can learn to do things differently, but do…

— Jim Abbott