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.’
AIMEE MULLINSOur insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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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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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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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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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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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