You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
AIMEE MULLINSYou feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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