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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

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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Dinner Home Mum Night Paper Round Work
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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Creep Doubt Generate Incredibly Infectious May Momentum Outweight Self
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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Disable Double Fact Make Objective Opinion Subjective
The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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Crush Disability Spirit True
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
Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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Happiness Life Living Own Rule
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
I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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Chase Chasing Dream Moaner Myself People Surround
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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Advantage Bring Girl Learn Overlook Player Softball
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
The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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Beautiful Besides Kissing Out Sleep Water
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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Going Heroine Human Interest Interview Refuse Sport Story Tragic
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
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
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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Athlete Defeat Elation Emotion Experience Glory Sport Success Teamwork Triumph
People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Being Case Disability Insecurity People Presume Struggle
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Belief Disability Everyone Feel Something Thinking Weakness
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
The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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Arena Athlete Beautiful Beyond Capability Complete Excel Human Normal Power Sport Success
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
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Body Call Celebrity Disabled More
True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Beauty Complete Inner Radiate True
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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Attitude Mad Men Now Shocking Watch Women
With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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Everything Mean Model
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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Beautiful Broken Heart Discover Humanity Potential
Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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Belted Coaster Constant Down Life Roller Thousand Time Up
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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Difference Distinction Fact Inspiration Medical Motivation Objective Real Societal Subjective

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