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For 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 Mullins

Topics: Any Being Child Community Disabilities Disabled Ever Felt Grow Grow Up Identity Me Never Ownership Up

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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.'

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Asking Bilateral Call Challenged Could Describe Disabled Had Handicapped Hopefully Journalists Just Me Physically Said Well You

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It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of that. That's just me.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Am Because Disabled Factual Just Me Opinion Say Subjective Think Whether I Think I Am

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

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Anderson Body Calls Disabled Her More Nobody Prosthetic Than

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I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: About Become Disabled Fat Gimmick Girl Had Her Know Model Move Move On Now Passing Stomach Story Thing Want Who Written You

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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.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Disabled Handicapped Hate Imply Less Myself See Than Way Whole Words You

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When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Being Cannot Compassion Conquer Disabled Feel Got How Imagine Life Mother Now Older See Somehow Would You Young I Feel I Can

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We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Been Black Communities Disabled Erased Folk Leading Long Long Time Movements Narrative Official Our Queer Time Understand Women

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There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

~Amy Purdy

Topics: Disabled Legs Me More People Plenty Than Way Who

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I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

~Amy Purdy

Topics: Disabled Either Girl Know Me Myself Other People Sad See Want

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