Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSLife is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
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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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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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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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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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An 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.
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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