People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
AIMEE MULLINSAnd certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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.
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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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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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 said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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 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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