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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

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Aimee Mullins
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 20
Actor
Athlete
Athletics Competitor
Film Actor
Model
Television Actor
Allentown
Pennsylvania
Preparing
Adversity
Meet
Simply
Responsibility
Care
Wells
Well
Shielding

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I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.
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I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' 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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Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
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Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
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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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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. 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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