Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
AIMEE MULLINSAdversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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 said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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