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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
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.
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.
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.
Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.
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.
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!
Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.
