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’?
AIMEE MULLINSIf it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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