Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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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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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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