It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
AIMEE MULLINSI’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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I haven’t had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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