It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Nobody is on the Paralympic Team until three months before those games.

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.