Disability Quote by Amy Purdy

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

— Amy Purdy

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

When I first had my legs amputated, it was hard for me to be positive and feel pretty. Many people don't know that someone…

— Oksana Masters

I feel that losing both my legs was a blessing. It was meant to happen to me: I wouldn't have had the opportunity to…

— Amy Purdy

I actually lost both my legs. I can walk because I got really good health care.

— Tammy Duckworth

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment…

— Nancy Mairs

I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so…

— Nick Vujicic

Losing my legs was one of the greatest opportunities of my life.

— Alex Zanardi

Everyone had legs. Even my younger sisters both had legs. It was hard to comprehend what I did wrong: Why me? Then I found…

— Jessica Long

As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of obstacles in…

— Greg Walloch

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

— Mark Haddon