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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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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...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.

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The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

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I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' 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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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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With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

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

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

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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' 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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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

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You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit

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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'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

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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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