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.
AIMEE MULLINSIf left to their own devices a child will achieve.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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 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 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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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