As women got little
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk? Erica Jong
Disabled
Being disabled should not
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life. Emma Thompson
Prenatal testing is a
Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage. Emily Oster
One of the reasons
One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven. Elyn Saks
I wonder whether our
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn’t also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all? Ellen Goodman
It is in the
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered … that we are behind our age…. sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
The President\\’s policy proposal,
The President’s policy proposal, known as ‘chained CPI,’ would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won’t keep up with inflation on things like food and health care — the basics that we need to live. In short, ‘chained CPI’ is just a fancy way to say ‘cut benefits for … Read more
I don\\’t think child
I don’t think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent – that’s all I want from the government. Pay that piece of it for poor or developmentally disabled children. Edward Zigler
We are the trade
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick… the trade union for the nation as a whole. Edward Heath
If you were disabled
If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who lost limbs in Afghanistan had to prove that their leg hadn’t grown back. Duncan Green