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.
AIMEE MULLINSI have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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 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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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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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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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