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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.
Aimee Mullins
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Aimee Mullins
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 20
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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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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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Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
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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. 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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Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
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The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And 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.
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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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I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if' it's 'how.'
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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