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.

Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?

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.

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

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

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.

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.