#pa

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

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

— Walter Jon Williams

#paperback #too

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

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#golf #got #i #into #league

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

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#beginning #every #great #happens #history

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#become #best #daddy #kind #king

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#empathy #essays #fiction #stranger #theoretical

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. ↗

— Florence King

#avoid #between #counselors #couples #gone

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#called #company #first #fun #girl