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.

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What I've done in this older part of my life is I started foundation called 261 Fearless, named after my old ,1967 Boston Marathon, bib number.I thought we could create training and a communicative, non-judgmental platform, in a movement to let them know they're not alone. Then fearless women can reach out to help women who are fearful and take that first step using the vehicle of running because it's transformational. It works for every woman every time.

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If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

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All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

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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.

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Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

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If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

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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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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.

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I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

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