It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
AIMEE MULLINSI 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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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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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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