Stella Young Quotes

• Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

  Stella Young

  Thinking, Knowing, Doe

  ""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 Young

  Flight, Stairs, Made

  "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.

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• My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

  Stella Young

  Use, Disability, Environment

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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.

  Stella Young

  Morning, Lying, Names

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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.

  Stella Young

  Sweet, Strong, Way In Life

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• I've been an atheist ever since I heard there was only a stairway to heaven

  Stella Young

  Atheist, Heaven, Heard

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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.

  Stella Young

  Joy, Political, Doe

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