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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

Aimee Mullins

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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Admire Athlete Day Excellent Most Necessary Particular People Success Wonderful
With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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Everything Mean Model
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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Breast Cavity Disability Enhancement Nose Part
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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Disable Double Fact Make Objective Opinion Subjective
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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Beautiful Broken Heart Discover Humanity Potential
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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Disable Disabled Handicape Hate Imply Less Way Whole
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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Ability Belief Confidence Disability Undermine
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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Dinner Home Mum Night Paper Round Work
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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Different Every Factor Race Softball Sports Job Success Time Wining
I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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Aside Base Girl Meet Second Slide Step Stick Wooden
It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Enough Heel High Stilt Walk Woman
The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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Champion Individuality Innovation Pentagon Place
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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Children Community Disability Felt Growing Identity Ownership Up
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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Cell Feel Home Impact Leave People Phone Tool
It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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Alleviating Balance Breathing Controlling Stress
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Affirmation Beauty Confidence Deep Indicator Mean Personality Self Skin True

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