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.
AIMEE MULLINSThe Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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 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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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 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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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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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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