Heroines Quote by Aimee Mullins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Aimee Mullins

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

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

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

— Aimee Mullins