It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
AIMEE MULLINSAn 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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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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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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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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