Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
AIMEE MULLINSThe 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.
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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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 idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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