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.
AIMEE MULLINSIf 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.
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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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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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