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 MULLINSYou 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 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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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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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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 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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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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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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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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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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