Stella Young Quotes

Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.

I've always found people with physical disabilities interesting to watch: how the dynamics of their body work, what makes them move this way or that.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

In comparison to an able-bodied person, it's incredible, the amount of extra resistance I have, in comparison to an able body.

By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.

I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than medical approach to disability, and so long Latin names for congenital conditions are not relevant.

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

You can really do amazing things in a wheelchair. It's very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but you can even go up and down stairs in a wheelchair.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.

I feel bad for people in wheelchairs and people who have to use crutches.

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

… a blind man talking to a group of deaf people

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society.

I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.

I was born blind in Sapangbato in Angeles City.

I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.