Stephanie Beacham Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.”

“When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.”

“When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.”

“I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.”

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

“Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.”

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

“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.”