If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
AIMEE MULLINSSuccess 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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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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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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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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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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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