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.
AIMEE MULLINSI’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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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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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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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 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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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