Top 87 Quotes by Stella Young

About Stella Young

These are some quotes by Australian author Stella Young Comedian, who lived between February 24, 1982 and December 6, 2014.

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

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

Stella Young

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.

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.

Stella Young

I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn't be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access.

Stella Young

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

Stella Young

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 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

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

Stella Young

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

Stella Young

From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another.

From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another.

Stella Young

I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name of my condition in an interview unless it's relevant to the context of the story.

Stella Young

I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal.

Stella Young

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