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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."
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"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."

"I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself."

"Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from."

"In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports."

"I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms."

"Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul."

"In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it."
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