You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
AIMEE MULLINSAt 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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 we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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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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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 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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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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