The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
AIMEE MULLINSIn sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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