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It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

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

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

For me, disability is a physical experience, but it's also a cultural experience and a social experience, and for me, the word 'crip' is the one that best encapsulated all of that.

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.