Amputees Quote by 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

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

I'm very able-bodied. There's not much that I can't do. It takes me a little bit more time. But if you hear 'bilateral amputee,'…

— Brian Mast

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

— Robert M. Hensel

I've been a bilateral amputee since birth and don't know anything else.

— Jessica Long

My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

— Rick Hansen

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

— Aimee Mullins

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

The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New…

— Terry Fox

We must not call any person short or small because of his/her height, instead, call him/her vertically challenged.

— Jofeliza Padrigone

“We all have disabilities. What’s yours?”

— Atheneum Books for Young Readers

There are plenty of people who have legs who are way more disabled than me.

— Amy Purdy