Marca Bristo was born on 23 June 1953 in Albany, New York, USA. She was married to J. Robert Kettlewell and Robert Kettlewell. She died on 8 September 2019 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
I wish people would not look at persons with disabilities and think of us as heroic and filled with courage. There was really no courage involved in it. It never felt that way to me. Dispelling that kind of myth is just as important to us as dispelling the myth about disability wherein people think you're incapable of doing for yourself.