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When you are truly you and share who you are with the world and be confident in who you are, it doesn't matter what size you are. It doesn't matter what your different body parts look like.
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The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over the place - because it's mechanical, and it's outside your body.
Amy Purdy
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I think the designs and creativity are limitless with 3-D-printed clothing.
Amy Purdy -
My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.
Amy Purdy -
The way I look at it is, we all have disabilities.
Amy Purdy -
You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.
Amy Purdy -
Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.
Amy Purdy -
I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.
Amy Purdy
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When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.
Amy Purdy -
My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.
Amy Purdy -
Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.
Amy Purdy -
I kind of had to figure stuff out on my own and get myself snowboarding competitively again. I went through all types of different legs to try to learn which were going to work for me. Luckily, I was able to figure it out.
Amy Purdy -
If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.
Amy Purdy -
I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on this amazing journey. I can look back and be completely grateful and say I would never want to change anything.
Amy Purdy
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It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.
Amy Purdy -
Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.
Amy Purdy -
We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.
Amy Purdy -
Since losing my legs, I've found out that I am able to help other people by sharing how I've overcome my obstacles.
Amy Purdy -
After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on the computer, looking for 'adaptive snowboarders' or 'snowboard legs' or 'adaptive snowboard schools' or just something that I could connect to. I already knew how to snowboard - I just needed to find the right legs.
Amy Purdy -
We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.
Amy Purdy
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I lost my spleen, I lost the hearing in my left ear, so I had a lot of internal organ damage.
Amy Purdy -
I guess I'm always up for a challenge.
Amy Purdy -
I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.
Amy Purdy -
I'm one of those people who doesn't want to miss out on anything.
Amy Purdy