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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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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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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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