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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.

Aimee Mullins

Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Children Come Day First Some World
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Body Call Celebrity Disabled More
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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Cell Feel Home Impact Leave People Phone Tool
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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Creep Doubt Generate Incredibly Infectious May Momentum Outweight Self
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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Awful Family Given Leg Mode More Mother Nature Perfect
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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Amputee Arm Bone Cerebral Flesh Know Leg Palsy
I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Amputee Asking Challenge Disable Handicap Journalist Knee Physical
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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Body Disable Enhancement Hollywood Thinking
Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Disability Everyone Insecurity Struggle
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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Athlete Defeat Elation Emotion Experience Glory Sport Success Teamwork Triumph
When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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Curious Explore Feel Really Something Take
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Beautiful Childhood Confident Feel Film Watch
At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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Age Assisted Device Glass Hip Lofe Medical Need Person Point
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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Daily Day Function Having Impact Important Part
It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Enough Heel High Stilt Walk Woman
It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Beautiful Humanity Make Our Potential Within

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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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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