Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
AIMEE MULLINSUps and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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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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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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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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