It’s not about insults or taking each other down. As a person who is deaf, as a woman, as a mom, as a wife, as an actor, I have a voice. And I’m using that voice to make myself heard...and vote.
Oct 15, 2016
- Published in Dance, Disability, Elections & Campaigning, Music & Film
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I don’t look at them as having terrible birth defects. I look at them as gorgeous. To me that is not a horrible, hideous birth defect. It’s no less beautiful to me.
Feb 03, 2016
- Published in Disability, Drugs & Medicine, Family, Generations, Health
I hope to challenge the ideas of beauty in gay culture. Putting a gay disabled character on TV is my number one dream.
Nov 09, 2015
- Published in Bisexual, Disability, Equal rights, Gay, Individuality, Lesbian, Pop-Culture, Power & Privilege, Queer, Transgender
When out of all the poets who received the Pulitzer -- the prize awarded to those who made the biggest contributions to the human spirit -- 38 percent of them were bipolar, how can we simply label it a human disorder? Think how much more they could contribute to the human spirit if they knew it could be used as a gift to humanity, instead of something to hide from humanity?
Dec 07, 2015
- Published in Arts & Literature, Communication & Rhetoric, Disability, Health, Mental Health
It has not been easy, for any mother of a child with mental illness, or all the siblings.
Aug 18, 2015
- Published in Disability, Family, Health, Mental Health
Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I ever met anybody who liked his or her plan, but that was not my experience, that was not my experience. And it was not my experience as a mother of five, who occasionally has a bad back and the rest of that. I was considered a poor risk, even though I had some resources and thought I was quite strong for having five children. But the insurance company didn’t see it that way.
Nov 15, 2013
- Published in Ambition & Fame, Communication & Rhetoric, Congress & Legislation, Disability, Drugs & Medicine, Equal rights, Ethics, Family, Generations, Health, Human RIghts, Ideology, Investments, Justice, MediCare & MedicAid, Policy, Political Responsibilities, Politics, Public Opinion & Polls, Reality, Regulations
Three years ago, I did not imagine my arm would move again. For so many days, it did not. I did exercise after exercise, day after day, until it did. I’m committed to my rehab and I’m committed to my country. And my resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.
Jan 07, 2014
- Published in Ambition & Fame, Civil Disobedience, Communication & Rhetoric, Community, Congress & Legislation, Democracy, Disability, Drugs & Medicine, Ethics, Free Speech, Freedom & Liberty, Generations, Health, History, Human Nature, Human RIghts, Ideology, Justice, Leadership, Policy, Political Aspirations, Political Responsibilities, Politics, Public Opinion & Polls, Reality, Second Amendment & Gun Control, Unity, Violence
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