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.
AIMEE MULLINSI feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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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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I 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.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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