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.
AIMEE MULLINSIt is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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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’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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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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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.
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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 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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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