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Stella Young
1982 – 2014 • Australian • Comedian
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Showing 6 quotesDisability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work.— Stella Young
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Religion
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.— Stella Young
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Medical
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.— Stella Young
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Medical
I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.— Stella Young
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Inspirational