Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
AIMEE MULLINSAnd I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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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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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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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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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 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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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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