Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
AIMEE MULLINSAdversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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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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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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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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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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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’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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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.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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