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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.

Aimee Mullins

I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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Believe Body Confidence Part Sexy
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Affirmation Beauty Confidence Deep Indicator Mean Personality Self Skin True
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.
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Age Assisted Device Glass Hip Lofe Medical Need Person Point
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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Ability Belief Confidence Disability Undermine
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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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
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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Creep Doubt Generate Incredibly Infectious May Momentum Outweight Self
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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Attitude Mad Men Now Shocking Watch Women
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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Adversity Ground Life Living Need Obstacle Order Resume
People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Being Case Disability Insecurity People Presume Struggle
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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Allow Creative Disable Enough Individual Invest Quality Rare Show Someone Valuable
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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Amputee Below Bilateral Call Describe Hopefully Knee
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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Adversity Care Easy Meet Prepare Responsibility Simply Well
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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Children Community Disability Felt Growing Identity Ownership Up
Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Children Come Day First Some World
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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Disable Double Fact Make Objective Opinion Subjective
When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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Curious Explore Feel Really Something Take

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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