I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
AIMEE MULLINSGiving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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