Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
AIMEE MULLINSIn sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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