"I don't know why I run so fast. I just run."

-- Wilma Rudolph

#Running Quotes

“She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.”
“the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!”
“Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.”
“I love meeting life halfway.”
“I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky.”

Source : Usenet article <[email protected]>, 1999.
“It's important to stay creative.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you â€œbest of all.â€ It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [...]”
“Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.”

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