One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.