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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.