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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Life is for participating, not for spectating.

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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.

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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.

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Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.

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When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20. In those days, that was considered a jogging time and I knew people were going to tease me. But I was more fascinated with what women could do if they only had the chance.

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

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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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