Top 40 Aimee Mullins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The only true disability is a crushed spirit.”

— Aimee Mullins

2. “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

3. “Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.”

— Aimee Mullins

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

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5. “Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.”

— Aimee Mullins

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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.”

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9. “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

10. “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

11. “If left to their own devices a child will achieve.”

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12. “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

13. “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

14. “The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most peoples cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. Its an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.”

— Aimee Mullins

15. “True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.”

— Aimee Mullins

16. “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

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

— Aimee Mullins

18. “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

19. “With L’Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.”

— Aimee Mullins

20. “Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.”

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21. “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.”

— Aimee Mullins

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

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

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24. “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.”

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25. “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.”

— Aimee Mullins

26. “I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.”

— Aimee Mullins

27. “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

28. “I’ve said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.”

— Aimee Mullins

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

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

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31. “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.”

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32. “Sure, I’d love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.”

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33. “You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “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.”

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

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37. “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.”

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38. “I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.”

— Aimee Mullins

39. “The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.”

— Aimee Mullins

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

— Aimee Mullins