Stella Young famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
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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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In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.
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I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.
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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 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.
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I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven
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My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.
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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 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
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
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If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
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The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
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For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
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Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
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It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.
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