Aimee Mullins Quotes, Body Quotes, Life Is Quotes

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

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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. 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. 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. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

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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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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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Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.

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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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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

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If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

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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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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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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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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, 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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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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The only true disability is a crushed spirit

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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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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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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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Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

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