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