I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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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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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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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