Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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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