Disability Quote by Aimee Mullins Download Open image “I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.” — Aimee Mullins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disability Humans Interest Issues
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… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Disability, whether as a private or a public-policy issue, is the subject on which I receive by far the most correspondence. It is both… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering. — Kevin Sorbo Copy Share Image
The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move… — Viktoria Modesta Copy Share Image
There's so much policy made on behalf of people with disability. You know, not inclusive of us. And that's not good enough. — Dylan Alcott Copy Share Image
I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability. — Oscar Pistorius Copy Share Image
I stand not just for a disability, but I stand for women and women's rights. — Lauren Wasser Copy Share Image
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw that in… — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gender and sexuality. It's certainly a great… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled. — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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. — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in. — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do. — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“Every EDS patient knows that one of the hardest parts of our day is the moment we open our eyes and waken into the… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
“He took the teapot and poured two cups. She was grateful. And also frustrated. Not being able to walk was annoying, and that emotion… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities. — Lauren Potter Copy Share Image
Not really what you can do, others can either. Not really what you can't do, neither can others. — Voeun Tivea Copy Share Image
“When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they… — Yvonne Pierre Copy Share Image
“If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our… — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.” - Bell Hooks” — Win Quier Copy Share Image
