If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience..

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

If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we….

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled..

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into ….

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whet….

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have….

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 f….

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 tho….

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..

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having i….

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….

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into ….

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

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

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life..

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules..

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human ….

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 rare and v….

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well..