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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.

Aimee Mullins

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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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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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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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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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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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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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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