I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
AIMEE MULLINSHalf of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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