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.
AIMEE MULLINSWhen I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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 admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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