Stella Young quotes
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“Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.”
-- Stella YoungSource : ""I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much"". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April 2014.
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“No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,”
-- Stella YoungSource : "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.
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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.”
-- Stella Young -
“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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