Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSWe 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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 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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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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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’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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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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