Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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