It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
AIMEE MULLINSI would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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 said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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