"Silence is the Last Thing the World Will Ever Hear From Me."

Happy birthday to lefty deaf actress Marlee Matlin. I adore this woman so much. You can find her in one of my most favorite films, Children of a Lesser God. She's in plenty of other films, also in the L Word and Dancing with the Stars. I also just found out that she released a book a few months ago, that I definitely have to go get.

"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."
"If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are."
"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using."