True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
AIMEE MULLINSThere’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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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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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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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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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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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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 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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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 admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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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