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Billie Jean King

"It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to."

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"It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to."

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"My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people."

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"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."
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"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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"The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men."
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"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity."
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"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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"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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"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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"I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport."
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"I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well."
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