#disability

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #life

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid. ↗

— Jacob Hacker

#aid #believe #come #disability #disaster

It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others. ↗

— Naomi Judd

#decade #disability #entertainer #ever #feel

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#disability #does #me #symbolizes #way

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#about #crazy #disability #i #mattered

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?' ↗

— Major Owens

#been #disability #elevator #expense #given

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#cold #common #detect #disability #disease

Near the end of Love's Labor, Eva Feder Kittay (1999, 154) writes that a fundamental aspect of a just society is related to the conditions and limits of mothering. In a just society, women with disabilities can mother because there is adequate emotional and material support for them to do so, and given a context of support and approval to reproduce, they can also choose not to bear children. In a just society, mothers of children with disability can mother, and they, their children, and other needed caregivers will be adequately supported." (15) ↗

— Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio

#motherhood #love

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#awareness #birth #brain #damaged #disability

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#disability #disappointment #emptiness #feelings #fulfillment