Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
AIMEE MULLINSIf you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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 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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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We 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.
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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 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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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.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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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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