It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true.
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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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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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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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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.
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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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With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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I’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.
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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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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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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 feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.
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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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Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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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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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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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 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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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