I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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.
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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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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 is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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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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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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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.
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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 know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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