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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.

Aimee Mullins

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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Beautiful Besides Kissing Out Sleep Water
I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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Advocate Amputee Disability Human Interest Issue People
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Affirmation Beauty Confidence Deep Indicator Mean Personality Self Skin True
Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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Happiness Life Living Own Rule
Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Adapt Adversity Change Inspirational Yet
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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Daily Day Function Having Impact Important Part
Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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Belted Coaster Constant Down Life Roller Thousand Time Up
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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Disable Disabled Handicape Hate Imply Less Way Whole
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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Different Every Factor Race Softball Sports Job Success Time Wining
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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Dinner Home Mum Night Paper Round Work
Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Body Call Celebrity Disabled More
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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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Disability Everyone Insecurity Struggle
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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Ability Belief Confidence Disability Undermine
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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Attitude Mad Men Now Shocking Watch Women
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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Adversity Care Easy Meet Prepare Responsibility Simply Well

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