You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
AIMEE MULLINSI think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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