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 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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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 admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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