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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.

Aimee Mullins

I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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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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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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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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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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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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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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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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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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