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More Quotes by Kathrine Switzer
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.
I don't have any kids of my own, quite by choice. There are two reasons for that. One, I had a sense of obligation for what my life would be and a vision of how to get that accomplished and it didn't include children. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that if you have them, they deserve 100 per cent of your attention.
I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.
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.
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.
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.
1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more.
