It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
AIMEE MULLINSYou 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’?
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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 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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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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