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.
AIMEE MULLINSYou 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’?
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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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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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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