Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
AIMEE MULLINSI’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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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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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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