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 MULLINSAdversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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For 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.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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