You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
AIMEE MULLINSI have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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