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.
AIMEE MULLINSYou feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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.
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