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Disability Quotes by Stella Young
- We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t…
- Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
- Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling…
- Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.
- It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with disability as it…
- People are uncomfortable about disability, and so interactions can become unintentionally uncomfortable.
- Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
- Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
- The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability,…
- Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of…
- The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
- Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.
- We fill our lives with all sorts of things that make it easier for us to get along in the world: wheelchairs, crutches, grabber sticks,…
More Disability Quotes
- I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get… — Susan Boyle
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back… — Ann Bancroft
- Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow… — William J. Brennan
- When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,… — Lewis Thomas
- Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity'...Disability is an art. it's an ingenious way to live. — Neil Marcus
- I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The… — Alexander P. de Seversky
- People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's… — Randy Wayne