The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
AIMEE MULLINSWith L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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 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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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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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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