Aimee Mullins Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I'm not so sure.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“A couple of years ago, I had my DNA sequencing done, and it is all anonymous. When the results came back, my musculature type said, 'most likely to be a sprinter.'”

“I didn't see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.”

“I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.”