Jennifer Shahade famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.
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Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.
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Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win.
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I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.
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Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I'm interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male dominated fields.
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Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.
-- Jennifer Shahade
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
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Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
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