Aimee Mullins Quotes

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

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

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.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

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.

With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

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.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

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 it.

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

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

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.

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.

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

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

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

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

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.

I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

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.

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.