It’s an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it’s very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.
AIMEE MULLINSIf 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.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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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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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being…that is the true glory of sport.
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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 had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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