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.

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.

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

I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.

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

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

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.