The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
AIMEE MULLINSPeople presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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 like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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