Advantage Quote by Stephanie Beacham

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some…

— Rachel Shenton

Every job I have been given, I have always been the only deaf person and it always comes with its challenges and issues.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those…

— Helen Keller

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

— Marlee Matlin

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

— Marlee Matlin

In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

— Katie Leclerc

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

— Thomas A. Edison

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made…

— Harriet Martineau

Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.

— I. King Jordan

The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing what it…

— Richard Masur

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and…

— Thomas A. Edison

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that…

— Marlee Matlin