I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINSIt’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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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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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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.
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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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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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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 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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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