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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

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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...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.

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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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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. 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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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'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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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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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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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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Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.

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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

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You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

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The only true disability is a crushed spirit

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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. 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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Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

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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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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

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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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