I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
AIMEE MULLINSThe 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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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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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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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 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 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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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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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