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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

Aimee Mullins

A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Body Life Lot Prove
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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Different Every Factor Race Softball Sports Job Success Time Wining
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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Curious Explore Feel Really Something Take
I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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Amputee Arm Bone Cerebral Flesh Know Leg Palsy
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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Daily Day Function Having Impact Important Part
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Beautiful Childhood Confident Feel Film Watch
I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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Dream Easy People Point Responsibility Shape Some Yourself
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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Allow Creative Disable Enough Individual Invest Quality Rare Show Someone Valuable
Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Adapt Adversity Change Inspirational Yet
You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Certain Describe Illegitimate Impact Person Technology Thinking Word
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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Confront Consistent Definition Describe Disability Real Thinking Truthfully
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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Amputee Below Bilateral Call Describe Hopefully Knee
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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Awful Family Given Leg Mode More Mother Nature Perfect
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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Advocate Amputee Disability Human Interest Issue People
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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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
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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Around Believe Continual Running Sorry Sunshine Want

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