In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
AIMEE MULLINSI feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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.
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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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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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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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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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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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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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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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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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