Community Quote by Christy Leigh Stewart Download Open image ““Being disabled is being gas–lit by society.”” — Christy Leigh Stewart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community
“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.” — Thomas Stephen Szasz Copy Share Image
“I am physically disabled, but they are culturally and socially disabled'.” — Bbcstories Copy Share Image
“I knew I was disabled when everyday home activities became overwhelming!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
“Disabled people needed an inordinate amount of time to accomplish the same daily living tasks as able-bodied people-it was one of the things that… — Kathryn Shay Copy Share Image
“I’m officially disabled, but I’m truly enabled because of my lack of limbs.” — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you.” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“A disabled body does not mean a disabled life—spirit, faith, and creativity still know how to walk.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
“For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“I think men think about their penises as much as women think about molestation.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“You keep the title of 'president' even if you served only one term. The same goes for rapists.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“Abortion is no one’s business but the person getting one. The way people practice eugenics is everyone’s business.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“I’m supposed to overcome my disability to make it easier to manage for people who I don’t even want in my life. I have… — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“People feeling pity for me is as offensive as them feeling inspired by me.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you’re wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been… — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“When I was in high school I wanted to be in the most underground band ever so we didn’t have a name, songs, no… — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
“I've purged myself of worldly goods; half my stuff is either being sold or going to charity. I need to go shopping.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was… — Umair Haque Copy Share
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
