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 MULLINSThe only true disability is a crushed spirit
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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