I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
AIMEE MULLINSI said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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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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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.
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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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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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An 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.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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 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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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