Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSSuccess isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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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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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