I’ve had journalists asking me, ‘What do we call you – is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?’
AIMEE MULLINSI’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
More Aimee Mullins Quotes
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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 left to their own devices a child will achieve.
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Our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
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It is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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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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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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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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The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
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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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I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.
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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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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body’s normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.
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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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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
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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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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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Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.
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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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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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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.
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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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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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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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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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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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The only true disability is a crushed spirit
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