If 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.
AIMEE MULLINSIn athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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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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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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