I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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