Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
AIMEE MULLINSWhen 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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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’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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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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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 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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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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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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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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