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’?
AIMEE MULLINSAdversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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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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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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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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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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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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 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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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