Serena Williams Quotes

“Serena’s body isn’t built to emulate the look of the model in an Ann Taylor shift dress. It’s built – through an exacting and grueling regimen – to decimate her opponents. And his suggestion that the body, too, is beautiful and sexy – in spite of, or even because of, its threat to the norms of white femininity – will continue to be threatening until the standards of beauty are decentered from those of the white upper class.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

“The Williams sisters had something else: each other, and their absolute dominance.”
― Anne Helen Petersen

“Put differently, the rhetoric of Williams’ different body isn’t just sexist – it’s profoundly racist.”
― Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

“I've got to be honest,
I was never a tennis fan,
But the moment that Venus and Serena appeared on the court with those rackets in their hands...
Now you understand!”
― Charmaine J Forde