Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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’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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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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 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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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