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1. "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." ~ Aimee Mullins
2. "I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'" ~ Aimee Mullins
3. "Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life." ~ Aimee Mullins
4. "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." ~ Aimee Mullins
5. "If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities we all have. It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful." ~ Aimee Mullins
6. "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." ~ Aimee Mullins
7. "A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do." ~ Aimee Mullins
8. "Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence." ~ Aimee Mullins
9. "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." ~ Aimee Mullins
10. "I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all." ~ Aimee Mullins
11. "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." ~ Aimee Mullins
12. "If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience." ~ Aimee Mullins
13. "In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'" ~ Aimee Mullins
14. "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
15. "It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!" ~ Aimee Mullins
16. "Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules." ~ Aimee Mullins
17. "Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled." ~ Aimee Mullins
18. "Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first." ~ Aimee Mullins
19. "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." ~ Aimee Mullins
20. "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." ~ Aimee Mullins
21. "I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. 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." ~ Aimee Mullins

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