Best 11 quotes of Stella Young on MyQuotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

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.

For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire. And in fact, I am sitting on this stage looking like I do in this wheelchair, and you are probably kind of expecting me to inspire you.

I am not here to inspire you. I am here to tell you that we have been lied to about disability. Yeah, we've been sold the lie that disability is a Bad Thing, capital B, capital T. It's a bad thing, and to live with a disability makes you exceptional. It's not a bad thing, and it doesn't make you exceptional.

The word 'special', as it is applied to disability, too often means 'a bit shit'.

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.