Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
AIMEE MULLINSI said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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