I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

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

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

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.