Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
AIMEE MULLINSAdversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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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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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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 feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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