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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. 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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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.

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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

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I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

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Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

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Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

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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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It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

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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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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

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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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