At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
AIMEE MULLINSI have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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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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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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