It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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 think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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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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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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