The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
AIMEE MULLINSSuccess isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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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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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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