You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
AIMEE MULLINSOur responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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