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.
AIMEE MULLINSI hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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