Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
AIMEE MULLINSUps and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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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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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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 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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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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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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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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