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.’
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’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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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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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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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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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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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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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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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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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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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 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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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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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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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.
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It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!
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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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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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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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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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