"Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes."

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Source : Janice Kaplan (1979). “Women and Sports: 2”, Viking Adult

Janice Kaplan

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“Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision,”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 14, 2006.
“I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.”

Source : "'Not even Frank Sinatra did that': Thrilled Jon Bon Jovi on riding with Barack Obama in his plane and Cadillac" by Kevin Maguire, www.mirror.co.uk. November 03, 2012.
“If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.”
“be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down”
“It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her self-directed behavior - and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided”
“Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man.”
“I think it's taken me this long to really trust myself, but now I do, I really do. Thanks to my experience and wisdom, I've learned not to be so naive and trusting. Today I question everything and listen to my instincts...”
“One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves.”

Source : "On Bullshit". Book by Harry Frankfurt, 2005.

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