Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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I said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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