People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
AIMEE MULLINSI said, ‘Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I’m a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.’
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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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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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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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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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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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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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