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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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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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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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.
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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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