I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
AIMEE MULLINSLife is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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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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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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