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.
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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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life.
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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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 like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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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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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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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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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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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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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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