If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
AIMEE MULLINSI would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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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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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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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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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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