When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
AIMEE MULLINSHalf of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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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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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 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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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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