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.
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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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.
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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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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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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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 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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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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