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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever."
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"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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"I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time."
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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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"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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"Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis."
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