I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
AIMEE MULLINSI don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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 hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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