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.
AIMEE MULLINSIf you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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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