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.
AIMEE MULLINSConfidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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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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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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 feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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