The only true disability is a crushed spirit

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

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

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

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

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.

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.