#ss

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#champion #i #i think #important #important thing

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#beginning #finally #get #infancy #passage

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

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#assumed #female #hard #how #leader

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#obsessed #who #world

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

#fortune #say #sports #successful #surveys

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

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

#empathy #essays #fiction #stranger #theoretical

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#assurance #been #never #regards #work