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The hyping of disabled athletes into superhuman status by Channel 4 only deepens our wounds, inflicted by continual assaults on our daily lives. It truly seems that the only acceptable disabled person is a Paralympian – and then only for a few weeks.


Penny Pepper

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LOUISE PENNY Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our...
LOUISE PENNY We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gu...
PENNY MARSHALL Grief was dagger-shaped and sharp and pointed inward. It was made of fresh loss and old sorrow. Rend...
LOUISE PENNY • …transferring her hunger to eat into a hunger to hurt. He didn’t turn round. She knew she sh...
LOUISE PENNY We plan to go full steam ahead.
PENNY LARSEN I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; ...
PENNY PRITZKER And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you’ve been assigned...
PENNY REID if it’s within your power to give another person great joy at little or no expense to yourself— ...
PENNY REID I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my...
PENNY JORDAN When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.
PENNY REID It was a careworn face. But most of the lines, if followed back like a trail, would lead to happines...
LOUISE PENNY I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the pr...
PENNY PRITZKER I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?
PENNY MARSHALL What I've learned is that the most troublesome people don't tell you 100% of the story, and ...
PENNY PRITZKER Certainly when we talk about beach parking, when we talk about accessibility to the beach, improving...
PENNY TAYLOR We're still a good team. I just think they're exceptionally good.
PENNY GEINGER In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though h...
LOUISE PENNY Because knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation.
PENNY REID I started CPR on him and he came back.
PENNY BROWN I don't startle easily.
PENNY MARSHALL With films, you are not so much on a schedule. TV is all about scheduling.
JOE PENNY Girls are better at this sort of labour, often called 'emotional labour', not because there's anythi...
LAURIE PENNY