"In days gone by, short-statured people were not……" — Stella Young
"In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets."
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41 Quotes by Stella Young
Stella Young has 41 quotes on this site.
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We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in…
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No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,
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Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
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In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a…
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I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven
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I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same…
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I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing.…
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I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong,…
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Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these…
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Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with…
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It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by…
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Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.
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More Aristocrats Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed…
— Diane Arbus
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Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The parties of Whig and Tory are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It…
— David Cronenberg
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Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.
— Spike Milligan
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What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make…
— Peter Viereck
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The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient…
— Florence King
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Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at…
— Bob Saget
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