The only true disability is a crushed spirit
AIMEE MULLINSIt is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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