Karen

“Sign language had been so thoroughly stigmatized that in trying to avoid it, parents had unknowingly opted for a modern version of institutionalization, locking their children away in their own minds.”
― Sara Nović, True Biz

“Yes, yes, yes, yes, somebody let me speak the truth, somebody let me," she cried... "Saying it is the only thing that makes me feel better, even the drugs aren't as good as that. All the things we don't say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble. I want to talk before I die. I want to be the one who gets to say things, who gets to think the deep thoughts. You'll all talk when I'm gone. Let me talk now without shushing me because it hurts you to hear what I have to say. I'm tired of being shushed.”
― Anna Quindlen, One True Thing

“It was hard to imagine what the world might be like if deaf people had as short a fuse about hearing people's inability to sign, their neglect or refusal to caption TV, or , hell the announcements on this bus. Of course, that was their privilege--to conflate majority with superiority.”
― Sara Nović, True Biz

“Her teachers called them “behaviors,” as if any action from a child beyond total compliance was implicitly bad.”
― Sara Nović, True Biz