Top 100 Quotes About Disability
#2. The stereotype of the supercrip, in the eyes of its critics, represents a sort of overachieving, overdetermined self-enfreakment that distracts from the lived daily reality of most disabled people.
Jose Alaniz
#3. In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack.
George Packer
#4. It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,
than the limitations society tries to place upon them.
Robert M. Hensel
#5. I mean," Minnie continued, "I don't have a problem with anyone who has a disability and wants to find a cure. But I'm good." "Don't you get it?" Flexis argued, "I'm giving you the chance to be normal!" "Your definition of normal severely contradicts mine," Minnie quietly said. Victor's
Burgandi Rakoska
#6. I feel like support is what anyone with a disability to overcome needs
Amy Rankin
#7. And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.
Andrew Solomon
#8. It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.
Saul Bellow
#9. What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.
J. David Smith
#10. Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right.
Stella Young
#11. It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me ... if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me ...
Helen Keller
#12. It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
Patricia Heaton
#14. I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you ... " and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability.
C. JoyBell C.
#15. For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.
Stella Young
#16. These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
Daniel H. Wilson
#17. If your child has a disability, a problem of any kind, do not become so wrapped up with the problem that you neglect the child. Your child needs your unconditional love far more than anything else - far more than any medical care, no matter how necessary. Far
D. Ross Campbell
#18. Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.
Sander Levin
#19. Whether it's veterans' disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.
Sean Patrick Maloney
#20. Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues.
Nina Easton
#21. Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.
Mallory Ortberg
#22. Something about an inner value, about love; the love that shone from him as if from some kind of a beacon.
Bryan Islip
#23. So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
Robert Sternberg
#25. Every time I can't tell where someone's calling me from in a room and every time I accidentally start to put my earbuds in both ears I think about you.
Maggie Stiefvater
#26. Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.
Shelley D Terrell
#27. Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
Malcolm Gladwell
#28. Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
Stella Young
#29. It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.
Jim Abbott
#30. The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.
J.G. Farrell
#31. I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.
Arthur Bradford
#32. Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.
Charles Dickens
#33. Physically, mentally, emotionally
it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.
Patrick Carman
#34. In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.
Peter Singer
#35. Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.
Stuart Duncan
#36. My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.
Rick Hansen
#37. If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.
Peter J. Carroll
#38. Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#39. If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at those who had it and didn't use it.
T.C. Slonaker
#40. A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.
Brian Spellman
#42. Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren't guy and girl. We weren't damaged and terminal. We were just now.
Elizabeth Langston
#43. Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.
Neil Marcus
#44. I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world
Viktoria Modesta
#45. ..a disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within the
employer.
..don't look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes.
Richard N. Bolles
#46. When speaking of disabilities, the blind and their needs are most often used as an example. It is deceivingly simplistic since accessibility is something most of the population can benefit from.
Marcus Osterberg
#47. 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 Szasz
#48. Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities
Erik Weihenmayer
#49. Mercy laughed. "You have to excuse them - boys suffer from an incurable disability."
"What?"
"Testosterone.
Nalini Singh
#50. It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
Marlee Matlin
#51. In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.
Jennifer Granholm
#52. If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.
Phil Mickelson
#53. One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life.
Stephen Hawking
#54. I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.
Wendy E. Long
#55. Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.
Hugh Herr
#56. We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.
Bill Shorten
#57. Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
Charles Dickens
#58. Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.
Stella Young
#59. I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
Calvin Trillin
#60. Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.
Christopher Eccleston
#61. 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
#62. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton
#63. He'd killed people, lots of them if he cared to count. Which he didn't.
Jackie Williams
#64. For every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges.
Nick Vujicic
#65. Flint, don't get so caught up on the shadow that you forget the man who casts it. You might not be able to walk, but that's the extent of your disability.
Aly Martinez
#66. We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles
Amy Purdy
#67. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
Patricia Polacco
#68. Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.
Nick Vujicic
#69. I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.
Simi Linton
#70. If you have a Disability, don't let people
Dis your Ability.
Jeff
#72. My disability has opened my eyes to see my true abilities.
Robert M. Hensel
#73. In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.
Bernard Jensen
#74. soft. Her hand was so soft, like cat fur, like bird feathers, like...everything soft he could think of. Her thumb caressing the corner of his mouth and her lips when they first touched his were tentative.
Bonnie Dee
#75. There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.
Danica McKellar
#76. We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#77. The Bradford appetite was a disability, damn it and should be treated as such.
R.L. Mathewson
#78. Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
John Donne
#79. I think when you have a disability people are always putting limitations on you, telling you, even in a nice way, what you can't do. My attitude to that has always been: You can't tell me that. I'll show you.
Louise Sauvage
#80. She unzipped her oversized flannel onesie, created especially for women not interested in finding a man, and tossed it on the bed.
Kishan Paul
#82. I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness ... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
Aimee Mullins
#83. But Leon wasn't due any disability. Wasn't, their mother said, like he could claim to have caught the dumbfuck there. Not
William Gibson
#84. Autism. STOP sugar coating it to make it easier to swallow. I don't have a superpower, sparkles or rainbows. I'm me. I need to be accepted for being me. In the world I live in, I have a disability
Tina J. Richardson
#85. I guess it's human nature to question yourself, to question why all the pain has had to happen? sometimes there isn't any answers it just is what it is and how we make ourselves feel and see through that, is what will determine how we move forward.
Nikki Rowe
#86. I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.
Nikki Rowe
#87. I'm not going to be one of those amputees who dances and everyone finds inspiring. I'm not inspiring. I'm just me.
Katherine Locke
#88. If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
S. Jay Olshansky
#89. You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.
Oscar Pistorius
#90. It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others.
Naomi Judd
#91. I wanted to share the realities of living with a disability since birth. My book is my attempt to promote increased inclusion and greater understanding of individual abilities
Stephanie Torreno
#92. Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Martina Navratilova
#93. Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.
Jessa Gamble
#94. Today, with tears in my eyes, I telephoned the mother of one of our children (aged thirteen) who had spoken for the first time since the age of three...
Michael Braccia
#95. I don't HAVE Autism, I am Autistic. It doesn't mean I see myself as a 'disability' first and a person second. I'm me, you cannot separate 'the Autism' out of me. I'm wired this way. I was born this way. I am this way
Tina J. Richardson
#96. 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 have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.
Stella Young
#97. Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
Stella Young
#98. My disability makes this rather a slow process, so I had plenty of time.
Stephen Hawking
#99. I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
Jackie Walorski
#100. That made love - not grace - the magic ingredient. Then a
new thought hit her. Perhaps love was grace. A shiver went
up her spine. What did that make anger? The antithesis of
grace?
Penelope Marzec
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