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. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
I'll be giving a speech at the randomest place, like a bank or something, and a guy in a suit will say, 'I'm totally freaked out that I'm talking to the girl from 'Cremaster.' For the rest of my life,… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled. — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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. — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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. — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do. — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
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… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
