The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

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.

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

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.

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.'

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.