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.
AIMEE MULLINSYou know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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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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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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