You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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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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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 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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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.
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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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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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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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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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