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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Advocate Disability Human Interest Issues Me

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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.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Ability About Anything Because Being Belief Certain Confidence Disability Everyone Feel Our Own Something Themselves Think Weakness Which I Think

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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.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Advocate Arm Cerebral Disability Diverse Even Group Human Interest Issues Know Leg Like Me People Possibly Speak You

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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Being Case Disabilities Disability Does Everyone Insecurities Our People Presume Struggle Those

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When I watch 'Mad Men' and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Around Attitudes Disability Evolution Feel Lived Mad Mad Men Men Now Regard Same See Shocking Us Watch Women I See I Feel

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I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

~Andrew Greeley

Topics: Bad Because Disability Fingers Handwriting Hit Learning Learning Disability Me Now Nun Over Ruler Say Terrible Troubled Very Who Woman Writing

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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

~Ann Bancroft

Topics: Back Because Childhood Dig Disability Get Goes Had Learning Learning Disability Me People Problems School Something Stubborn Tell Think I Think I Can

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I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.

~Anne Ford

Topics: Able Accepting Before Break Cannot Child Come Denial Diagnosed Disability Easily Hardest Huge Like Put Seen Terms Things Through Up Wall Years Your Your Child

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For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

~Annette Funicello

Topics: Cane Disability Does Me Way Wheelchair

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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.

~Barbara Mikulski

Topics: Affected Age American American Women Disability Families Financial Important Income Insure Most Nets Old Old Age Privatization Safety Security Social Social Security The Most Important Times Women Would

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