Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
Aimee MullinsGiving 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.
Aimee MullinsFor 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.
Aimee MullinsIf 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...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
Aimee MullinsThereโs an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not Iโm disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability Iโve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
Aimee Mullins