I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
AIMEE MULLINS
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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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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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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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