Disability Quotes

• It's really important to remember that disability is diversity, and that disabled actors and disabilities are something that is hugely under-represented in film.

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • Important
  • Something
  • Diversity

• If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well for the luckless Arab who is to live beneath their sway. How much of the trouble that has occurred already in Palestine may be attributed to this cause it is impossible to know.

  

  Nesta Helen Webster
  • Women
  • Trouble
  • Palestine

• Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Expectations
  • Disability

• I just remember when my first child was born I called the personnel office and I asked them about their leave policies. And they said, "Leave policies? Women just leave and they don't come back." And I said, "But I want to come back." They said, "We have no leave policy." And then they said, "Why don't you apply for disability?" Well, having a child is not a disability.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Office

• This is an exciting opportunity to positively impact the lives of Canadian children with a disability by providing a more direct route to help them reach their full potential.

  

  Milos Raonic
  • Opportunity
  • Potential
  • Positively

• Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

  

  Carson Kressley
  • Different
  • Age
  • Gay

• It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

  

  Susan Hampshire
  • Child
  • Understand
  • Disappoint

• Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

  

  Neil Marcus
  • Live
  • Art
  • Disability

• Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.

  

  Neil Marcus
  • Struggle
  • Courage
  • Disability

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