Stella Young Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.”
-- Stella Young

Source : ""I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much"". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April 2014.

#Thinking Quotes #Doe Quotes #Disability Quotes

“No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,”
-- Stella Young

Source : "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.

#Flight Quotes #Ramp Quotes #Stairs Quotes

“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.”
-- Stella Young

#Sweet Quotes #Strong Quotes #Adults Quotes

“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.”
-- Stella Young

#Joy Quotes #Political Quotes #Doe Quotes

“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

#Morning Quotes #Lying Quotes #Names Quotes

“I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven”
-- Stella Young

#Atheist Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Stairway To Heaven Quotes

“My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.”
-- Stella Young

#Use Quotes #Disability Quotes #Environment Quotes

“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

#Morning Quotes #Lying Quotes #Names Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.”

“For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.”

Source : Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks

“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason”

“It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.”