I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
AIMEE MULLINSI hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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 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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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