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

#Thinking #Doe #Disability

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

#Flight #Ramp #Stairs

“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 #Strong #Adults

“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 #Political #Doe

“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 #Lying #Names

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

#Atheist #Heaven #Stairway To Heaven