The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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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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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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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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