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 MULLINSI like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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 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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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