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 MULLINSThe Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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I hate the words ‘handicapped’ and ‘disabled’. They imply that you are less than whole. I don’t see myself that way at all.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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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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I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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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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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?
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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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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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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