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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#private #respect #wants #you #your

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing. ↗

— Ben E. King

#crowns #five #fun #fun thing #got

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#acceptable #active #athletes #females #had

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#paperback #too

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#between #everything #five #good #haul

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#crazy #drives #gone #her #martina

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#home #huge #least #lot #men

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#come #culture #depends #each #earth

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! ↗

— Billie Jean King

#athletes #dates #easily #getting #just

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious. ↗

— Carole King

#been #being #career #felt #guess