"I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women."

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Source : Billie Jean King, Frank Deford (1982). “Billie Jean”, Viking Pr

Billie Jean King

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“The speckled sky is dim with snow, The light flakes falter and fall slow; Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, Silently drops a silvery veil; And all the valley is shut in By flickering curtains gray and thin.”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1871). “Vagabonds: And Other Poems”, p.42
“There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?”
“Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.”
“All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.”
“I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.”
“If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.”

Source : 1961 Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23 Jun.
“I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.”

Source : "Adventures on the High Seas". Interview with Demarian Williams, www.scholastic.com.
“One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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