It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
AIMEE MULLINSTrue beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m 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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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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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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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 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 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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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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