We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
AIMEE MULLINSI 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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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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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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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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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