It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
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SUSAN DECKER My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance compa... SUSAN STRAIGHT If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more tree... SUSAN GEORGE The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured m... SUSAN SONTAG When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. SUSAN SARANDON In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ... SUSAN WIGGS To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. SUSAN SONTAG I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my ... SUSAN CHOI It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra... SUSAN STRASBERG My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best:... SUSAN ESTRICH I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. ... SUSAN ORLEAN I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a th... SUSAN MINOT I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically ... SUSAN GRIFFIN Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. SUSAN FALUDI As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in... SUSAN OLIVER I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you <... SUSAN SARANDON The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wis... SUSAN SONTAG In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. SUSAN HILL