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When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.
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More Quotes by Kathrine Switzer
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I knew he was an over-stressed race director, I knew he was protecting his race. It took five years because we had to do our homework - meaning we women - we did our legislative work and we officially got into the Boston Marathon. Then, all was forgiven by Jock Semple.
A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era.
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.
Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.
