With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
AIMEE MULLINSI don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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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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