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 MULLINSI’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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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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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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