Disabled Quote by 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

“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I love full on, like 65 mph in a handicapped parking spot.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I…

— Aimee Mullins

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

— Aimee Mullins

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

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…

— Aimee Mullins

I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move…

— Aimee Mullins

It's factual to say I am a bilateral-below-the-knee amputee. I think it's subjective opinion as to whether or not I am disabled because of…

— Aimee Mullins

“Folks like poor Misty Marie, they're limited, borderline dummies, but nothing enough to get a handicapped parking space. Or get any kind of Special…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding…

— Lewis B. Smedes

From the time I went into baseball, I have always been handicapped by my hands, which are too small. I never saw the day…

— Pud Galvin

Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted… To be…

— B. C. Forbes

I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a…

— David Henry Hwang