I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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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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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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