Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
AIMEE MULLINSAnd 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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 certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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