In this chapter, Jane Addams’ thoughts and actions on why ethics matter in a democratic society meet with thoughts and ideas central to critical disability studies, feminism, and feminist pragmatism. Actions as an expression of ethics correspond with critical disability activism’s clarion call “nothing about us without us,” through which disabled people have attempted to gain agency and just representation for decades. The author of this chapter argues that chronically ill and disabled women have been under-theorized, and barely represented and analyzed in most feminist schools of thought. In fact, feminist philosophers, and academics in general, have been reluctant to address the injustices inflicted on ill and disabled women, rendering them more vulnerable and exposed to arbitrarily worded social policy and ensuing unintended negative consequences. This article offers several entry points from which to view social injustices inflicted on ill and disabled women. It opens debate about Addams’ concepts of ethics expressed through Action, Democracy, Social Policy and Reciprocity, and Activism, and their interest for today’s critical disability scholars and other social scientists, practitioners, and activists. Addams considered compassionate action-taking based on sympathetic knowledge as an expression of applied ethics. This chapter argues in favor of collaborative knowledge production as a viable, reciprocal way out of a morally objectionable morass that leaves ill and disabled women to fend for themselves in an unsympathetic world experiencing continual public-health crises.