It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
AIMEE MULLINSLife is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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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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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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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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 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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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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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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