“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 to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.” PoliticalBlackDarkPowerfulMissingBeatsMadCollectionsShockPoeticVersesProvenOutrageBlastTroublesomeSwitchingBardsWhimsyPitch BlackAmputees Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson
“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 than anything is a suitable prosthetic and an attitude adjustment.” NeedsForgetAttitudeVictimRealizationRunnersLimbsInjuredAdjustmentSuitableProstheticsAttitude AdjustmentAmputees Author:Lauren Fleshman
“It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.” FactsOpinionObjectivesSubjectiveDisabledAmputees Author:Aimee Mullins
“The other night I was playing twister with some amputees.” NightTwisterAmputees Author:Demetri Martin
“If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.” IfsSawsCallingLettersI'm SorryAmputees Author:Demetri Martin
“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 don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.” PeopleKnowsHumansSpeakInterestIssuesGroupsArmsLegsBonesFleshDisabilityDiverseCerebralCerebral PalsyAmputees Author:Aimee Mullins
“People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.” PeopleDoeCasesStruggleInsecurityDisabilityPeople With DisabilitiesAmputees Author: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 could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'” IfsWellsSaidAskingHopefullyJournalistKneesCall MeDisabledHandicappedAmputees Author:Aimee Mullins
“The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?” HumansBodyGoalNaturalAbilityLevelsTechnologyCuttingGenerationsLimitsToolsMereEdgesAvailableFasterEvolveHuman BodyExceedNew GenerationCutting EdgeAmputees Author:Daniel H. Wilson
“His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.” TryingChildrenMightEyeMovingCitiesMorningSawsFailingUniqueGloryReflectionEssenceTreatsConvictionAppearanceDesperateSicknessAnxiousDedicatedTendernessOur LoveSeemingContagiousComradeFireworksOthernessMorning GloryAmputees Author:Angela Carter
“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.” FeelingsPainSufferingFeltLegsCholeraCrampsOne Hundred Years Of SolitudeAmputees Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“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 missing memories were aching.” MindStoriesPainUsedFeltMemoriesHeardMissingArmsLegsUsed To BePhantomsAmputees Author:Rick Riordan
“He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. "I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.” ThinkingSaidStillsHandsSidesWaterKissingHotStartingLegsLaughedFetishFlippedAugustusHazel GraceAugustus WatersHazel Grace LancasterAmputees Author:John Green
“Life has no romance without risk.” LifeRomanceRiskAdventureStrong WomenMountaineeringRisk-takingAmputees Author:Sarah Doherty
“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 not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.” ThinkingWorldImportantRealFactsInspirationMotivationDifferencesOpinionDefinitionsMedicalObjectivesDistinctionConsistentDisabilityHealthcareSubjectiveDisabledAmputees Author:Aimee Mullins
“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.” LoveMeanEyeYoungMotherSpeakVoiceConsciousnessKnowledgeBabyConfidenceWeakBlindLegsCaringUnconsciousLove LifeHospitalsTemporaryNurseSuicidalInfantNursingCaring For OthersYoung MotherGreat NursingAmputees Author:Virginia Henderson
“If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more amputees using the exact same prosthetic legs I have, running the exact same times I have - and that's not the case.” PeopleIfsWould BeRunningCasesAdvantageLegsProstheticsAmputees Author:Oscar Pistorius
“The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.” WayLooksNightChallengesNew YorkBasketballDecidedOvercomingCoachesMagazinesFormerConquerRanDisabilityArticlesMarathonDisabledBasketball CoachNew ChallengesAmputationAmputees Author:Terry Fox