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.
AIMEE MULLINSAdversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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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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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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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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