Bianca Kajlich Quotes

I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

Of course, I was 19 years old, and I suddenly lost my legs. It was extremely traumatic at the time, but I'm so beyond that. I've done so much with my life.

If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

I am short a cheekbone and an ear but am able to whip all hell yet.

I've had an ongoing fantasy about being interviewed on, like, a '60 Minutes'-type show about this really inspiring woman that can do anything with a fake leg. And then the camera pans out, and I'm just holding a mannequin leg.

I wanted people to know that I've been through the rain. I've been broken into pieces; I had a daughter at such a young age. There were times people would say, 'That's it for her.' But that didn't happen.

I always felt really lucky that I only lost my legs, because it could've been so much worse.

After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.

I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

My mom got pregnant when she was 15. She dropped out of high school. She died in her forties, but before she died, she went back and finished high school.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

There's nothing that special about me. I'm just a hard-working guy, I'm dyslexic, I had to overcome a lot of things like that.

2014 was a terrible year for me. I got a lot of help from psychiatrists, doctors, and my family, but also from group therapy. I met people from so many different backgrounds, and we were all able to relate to each other. It felt like a real community, and I stole that concept for Gurls Talk.

I have immense respect for anyone with a physical deformity and the courage and confidence it takes just to go out in the world.

I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.

It was tough to get to where I am, to get the following that I do have on social media and all the fans out there, which I greatly appreciate, but I would love to have a template so the next girl who grows up doesn't have to go through a lot of the hardships that we faced in our generation.

People who know the game of hockey, who followed hockey, they know who Sandeep Singh is. They know I have been Indian Hockey team's captain, but they don't know about the struggle and the life after being shot.

I did not walk for the first four years of my life.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who didn't like himself very much. It was not his fault. He was born with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is something that happens to the brain. It means that you can think but sometimes can't walk, or even talk.

Since losing my legs, I've found out that I am able to help other people by sharing how I've overcome my obstacles.

The toughest time was lying in a Tenerife hospital with no-one speaking English, next to a window with the sun beating down and my leg tied up, thinking I would never box again or even walk again. It took every bit of shine off winning the world title.

To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

I thought my sports career was over once I got into a wheelchair. That was the hardest reality I had to face.