It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSIn sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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