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.
AIMEE MULLINSIf left to their own devices a child will achieve.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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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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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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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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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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