It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
AIMEE MULLINSAdversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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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