Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
AIMEE MULLINSUps and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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