Polio Quotes

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.