I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
AIMEE MULLINSA lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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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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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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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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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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