"It is a truth universally acknowledged that from……" — Stella Young
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye."
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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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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want…
— Jane Austen
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I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
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I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there…
— Tony Abbott
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn…
— Corazon Aquino
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs…
— Ernestine Rose
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in…
— George Santayana
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The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming…
— Michael Polanyi
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The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be…
— James Madison
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized…
— James Weldon Johnson
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The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have…
— Unknown Author
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I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To…
— Ian Cawsey
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