Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSGiving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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’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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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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