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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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There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
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.
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
At the finish line of the 1967 Boston Marathon, one crabby journalist said it was just a one-off deal and women weren't going to run. Only a 20-year-old who had just run a marathon and was shot full of endorphin would say this but I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's.
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.
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.
I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.
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.
