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.
AIMEE MULLINSThe legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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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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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.
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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