Lorna Jackson > Quotes

“This new hockey was a barn full of jubilant line dancers and they grabbed my arm - me, slouching against hay bales in the darkest corner, worried about my weak knee, that I might pop a rib or want a cold beer or twelve, that I wouldn't know the steps and was dressed all wrong, that I was too fucking old - and dragged me onto the floor and joined me up to the long and twisting line. "Dance," said the game.”
― Lorna Jackson, Cold-Cocked: On Hockey

“Fans like me don't watch hockey, we read it. The hockey nexus - the league, owners, teams, players, media and advertisers - under-reads hockey and overlooks those parts of the game women respond to, like scruffish players in sharp suits saying hi to Mom back home in Cranbrook.”
― Lorna Jackson, Cold-Cocked: On Hockey