I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
AIMEE MULLINSThe 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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