Among Walter Reed amputees, physiotherapists had a…

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of…

— Virginia Henderson

The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of…

— Virginia Henderson

“Amputees suffer itches, cramps and even severe pains in a leg that is no longer there. It can be the same with love...”

— José N. Harris

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I…

— Aimee Mullins

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you…

— Aimee Mullins

“They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls.”

— Diane Setterfield

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…

— Aimee Mullins

The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more…

— Lauren Fleshman

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another…

— Angela Carter

Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his…

— Rick Riordan

With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock…

— Jeremy Robert Johnson

“Once he had told her something that she could not imagine: that amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches, in the leg that is no longer…

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

— Aimee Mullins

If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more…

— Oscar Pistorius