Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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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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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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