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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.

Aimee Mullins

A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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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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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 admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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