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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’

Aimee Mullins

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.
AIMEE MULLINS

Awful Family Given Leg Mode More Mother Nature Perfect
When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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Curious Explore Feel Really Something Take
I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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Chase Chasing Dream Moaner Myself People Surround
With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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Everything Mean Model
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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Amputee Below Bilateral Call Describe Hopefully Knee
An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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Athlete Defeat Elation Emotion Experience Glory Sport Success Teamwork Triumph
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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Different Every Factor Race Softball Sports Job Success Time Wining
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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Disable Double Fact Make Objective Opinion Subjective
It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Beautiful Humanity Make Our Potential Within
I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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Advocate Disability Human Interest Issue
If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Achieve Children Device Left Own
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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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
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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Allow Creative Disable Enough Individual Invest Quality Rare Show Someone Valuable
When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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Attitude Mad Men Now Shocking Watch Women
Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Children Come Day First Some World
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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Body Disable Enhancement Hollywood Thinking

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