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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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"If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle."
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"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"
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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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"There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!"
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"This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression."
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"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't."
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"If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from other mothers as bastards, that makes you a bigot and a germ on the face of earth. This is an unhealthy bias, even though in your personal mental universe it may provide you extreme comfort. This is exactly what we see in the religious fundamentalists."
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"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"
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"To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light"
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"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."
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"A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time."
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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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