Stella Young quotes and sayings
We fill our lives with all sorts of things that make it easier for us to get along in the world: wheelchairs, crutches, grabber sticks, hearing aids, canes, guide dogs, modified vehicles, ramps, as well as other kinds of services and supports. Disability does not necessarily mean dependence on other people.
Stella Young quotes
- We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.
- Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.
- Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
- For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.
- I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.
- I have always felt like a loved, valued and equal member of my family.
- I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.
- I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.
- I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.
- If everyone's looking at me, I might as well say something interesting.