The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
AIMEE MULLINSThe only true disability is a crushed spirit
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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