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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. ↗


— Billie Jean King


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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 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. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#exchange #how #just #look #many

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#coaching #grass-roots #i #i love #love

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. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#come #hope #i #i think #impossible

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#first #first law #get #i #king

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

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. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#boy #companies #get #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 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. ↗


— Billie Jean King


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