I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
AIMEE MULLINSSuccess 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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’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 insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around 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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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