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.
AIMEE MULLINSI have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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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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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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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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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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