If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
AIMEE MULLINSI’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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
-
-
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
AIMEE MULLINS -
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 MULLINS -
I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINS -
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
AIMEE MULLINS -
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.
AIMEE MULLINS -
The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
AIMEE MULLINS -
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.
AIMEE MULLINS -
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.
AIMEE MULLINS -
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.
AIMEE MULLINS -
I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
AIMEE MULLINS -
It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
AIMEE MULLINS -
The only true disability is a crushed spirit
AIMEE MULLINS -
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 MULLINS -
If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
AIMEE MULLINS -
A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
AIMEE MULLINS