In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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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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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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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 idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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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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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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 admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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