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 MULLINSI’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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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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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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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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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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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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