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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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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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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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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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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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