With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
AIMEE MULLINSIf you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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 valuable and capable.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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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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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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