Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSFor 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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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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 know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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 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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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 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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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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 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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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