I don't have a dis-ability, I have a different-ability.
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability. . . but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.
I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.
No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.
Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability. ” “What?” “Testosterone.
When I do public speaking, I ask the audience, "Who has a family member, a neighbor, a friend with some form of disability?" Every single hand goes up. We're all connected.
I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.
Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.
I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.
If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.
Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are the wheelchairs. It's the same height and so on. It's a problem.
I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
Forget what you know about disability.