Disability Quotes
Lines on myths, sport, fiction, and honest representation.
These quotes address disability from several angles: the social myths and fears Congress has acknowledged as handicapping in their own right, the growth of disability sport, and the lack of disability representation in teen fiction. See Disabled quotes for related themes.
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
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.
Challenges Quotes
Looking at how things might be under Trump is scary, particularly when a pinnacle moment in his campaign saw him mocking and belittling a reporter with a disability.
Maybe because I had a sister with a disability I was already sensitised to and fascinated by people who think or develop differently.
I've fought physical disability and was cured because of naturopathy and yoga.
I made a film about a person living with a disability. Those kinds of films are often about the disability, not who a person is.
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.
Disabilities Quotes
I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren't exactly superheros - characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability.
Not only does disability impact individual health and well-being, it also leads to social and economic exclusion.
The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
Disability is as visual as race. If a wheelchair user can't play Beyonce, then Beyonce can't play a wheelchair user.
Disabled Quotes
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.
I stand not just for a disability, but I stand for women and women's rights.
Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.
Disadvantage Quotes
I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead.
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From policy language to casting debates in film, these quotes reflect ongoing conversations about how disability is understood and represented. Continue with Challenges quotes for more on obstacles and resilience.
