A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
AIMEE MULLINSEveryone 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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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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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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 admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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