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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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We 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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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