The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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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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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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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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 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.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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