Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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And 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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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