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.
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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.
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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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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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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
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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.
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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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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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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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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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.
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I’m not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It’s just I don’t believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
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And I’m certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
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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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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
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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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