Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins

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
Aimee Mullins

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins

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
Aimee Mullins

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

Aimee Mullins
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
Aimee Mullins

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

Aimee Mullins
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 rare and valuable and capable.

Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins

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
Aimee Mullins

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.

Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins

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
Aimee Mullins

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
Aimee Mullins

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

Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins

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
Aimee Mullins

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
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 a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.

Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins

I want to be a Bond girl. Think about it - I have metal components in my legs, so when I go through airport security, I set off the alarms. But when they realize why I'm beeping, they let me through. What if I had weapons in my legs? I could take one off and pull out an Uzi! Legs Galore - that would be me!

Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins

I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.

Aimee Mullins
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 it.

Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins

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

Aimee Mullins
Aimee Mullins

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