Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. ↗
I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better. ↗
I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are. ↗
Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers. ↗
The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference. ↗
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. ↗
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. ↗
