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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.

Aimee Mullins

It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Enough Heel High Stilt Walk Woman
I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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Believe Body Confidence Part Sexy
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
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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Advocate Amputee Disability Human Interest Issue People
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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Amputee Arm Bone Cerebral Flesh Know Leg Palsy
In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Athletic Idea Possibility Presume
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
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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Cell Feel Home Impact Leave People Phone Tool
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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Apartment Confident Dance Feel Great Kissing Make Record Rocking Someone
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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Disable Disabled Handicape Hate Imply Less Way Whole
A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Body Life Lot Prove
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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Adversity Ground Life Living Need Obstacle Order Resume
I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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Dinner Home Mum Night Paper Round Work
People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Being Case Disability Insecurity People Presume Struggle
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
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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Better Connect Get Giving Roller Coaster Thing True Up

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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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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