#Quote
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.
Facebook
Twitter
More Quotes by Kathrine Switzer
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
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.
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.
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.
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.
Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
