I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINSI have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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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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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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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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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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 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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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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