The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
AIMEE MULLINSPamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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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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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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