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Billie Jean King

"Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport."

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"Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport."

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"No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!"

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"By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society."

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"Just change your attitude and perception to change your life."

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"If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself."

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"This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is "round (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to it."

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"All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary."

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"We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country."

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"If you want to change anything or your surroundings, change your perception; it will change everything."

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"Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say."

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"Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world."

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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."
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"It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences."
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"I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport."
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"The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing."
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"Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open."
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"I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself."
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"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."
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"I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it."
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"Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever."
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"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."
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