I 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.
AIMEE MULLINSIf left to their own devices a child will achieve.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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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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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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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 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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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