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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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Donna Grant

"You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile."

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Donna Grant

"We have to change our thoughts before things can change."

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Donna Grant

"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."

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Donna Grant

"You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes."

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Donna Grant

"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."

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Donna Grant

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."

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Donna Grant

"Every living object has to change every moment just to live."

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Donna Grant

"Change is the rule. Permanence is an illusion."

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Donna Grant

"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

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Donna Grant

"If you don't like the solution, change the problem."

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Billie Jean King
"When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!"

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Billie Jean King
"That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question."

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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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Billie Jean King
"I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team."

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Billie Jean King
"Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships."

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Billie Jean King
"Sports are a microcosm of society."

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Billie Jean King
"Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready."

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Billie Jean King
"I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually."

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Billie Jean King
"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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Billie Jean King
"I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour."

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