It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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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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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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