"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."

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Aimee Mullins

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Community Quotes

“We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.”
“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.”

Source : "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.
“I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.”
“Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
“You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.”
“Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.”

Source : Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”
“Compete with yourself, not with others.”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.163, Penguin
“My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.”

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