The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
AIMEE MULLINSI would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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The 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.
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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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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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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 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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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don’t see on my CV. The stuff that doesn’t work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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