I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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 insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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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’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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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’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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 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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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 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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