Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
AIMEE MULLINSAnd 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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