When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
AIMEE MULLINSPamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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 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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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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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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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 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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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