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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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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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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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