Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
AIMEE MULLINSPamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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