Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
AIMEE MULLINSIf left to their own devices a child will achieve.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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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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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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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 feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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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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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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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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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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