Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
AIMEE MULLINSWe 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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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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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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 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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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