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.
AIMEE MULLINSTruthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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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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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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