Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
AIMEE MULLINSA lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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 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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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