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.
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
AIMEE MULLINSIf you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
AIMEE MULLINSBelief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
AIMEE MULLINSThe 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.
AIMEE MULLINSFor 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.
AIMEE MULLINSI would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
AIMEE MULLINSIf left to their own devices a child will achieve.
AIMEE MULLINSIn athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
AIMEE MULLINSAn 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.
AIMEE MULLINSI have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
AIMEE MULLINSAdversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
AIMEE MULLINSHalf of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSIt’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSLife is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
AIMEE MULLINSI hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
AIMEE MULLINSAdversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
AIMEE MULLINS