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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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Aimee Mullins
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 20
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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. 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. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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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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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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. 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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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