#deaf

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of 'The Brady Bunch.' Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying 'hi' to everyone, whether they knew me or not. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#brady #bunch #chicago #deaf #despite

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#ear #handicap #mind

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deaf #door #even #foot #get

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deaf #denzel #denzel washington #dumb #get

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deaf #i #knew #young

I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help. ↗

— Michael McKean

#else #end #everyone #help #i

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#deaf #likely #more #much #outside

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#between #blind #deaf #good #good marriage

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem. ↗

— William Petersen

#back #being #bugs #comes #comfortable

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#asked #deaf #deaf people #go #historians