Quotes on Disability

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.

Author: Mary Bono

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Author: Dick Durbin

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

Author: Annette Funicello

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Author: Andrew Greeley

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

Author: Susan Hampshire