I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINSWhen I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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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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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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