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

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

— Amy Purdy

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 don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

— Oscar Pistorius

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

— Natalie du Toit

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

— Jessica Long

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

— Oscar Pistorius

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 don't feel disabled, and I think everybody makes their own way in life.

— Verne Troyer

The reason I'm disabled is because I have wounds and injuries that I got while on active duty ... from parachute jumping to combat…

— Richard Carmona