If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
AIMEE MULLINSIf it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
AIMEE MULLINSThe 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.
AIMEE MULLINSYou know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
AIMEE MULLINSUps and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
AIMEE MULLINSPamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
AIMEE MULLINSFor 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.
AIMEE MULLINSI’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINSThere’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.
AIMEE MULLINSAnd 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.
AIMEE MULLINSConfidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
AIMEE MULLINSIn athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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.
AIMEE MULLINSAt 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.
AIMEE MULLINSOur insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
AIMEE MULLINSAn 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.
AIMEE MULLINS