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.
AIMEE MULLINSI 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Success 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.
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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