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Playing chess taught me a queen is both: deadly & graceful, poised & ruthless. Quiet & cunning. A queen offers her hand to be kissed, & can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time.
“We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.”
― Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
― Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
“We are all wrong at some times and to some degree. A person who claims never to have been wrong is simply a person with a very convenient memory.”
― Demagoguery and Democracy
― Demagoguery and Democracy
“If I took the nicer subway, it meant I had to go through Manhattan every morning to get there, and that took a really long time. The subway line that ran the short way was the G line, which stopped exclusively in Brooklyn and Queens. That might be the only time the word exclusive has been used to describe the G train.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“But even now I know this isn't a fairy tale. I know that we'll have hard times, confusing times. I know that things won't always happen the way we want them to and that we'll have to work to remember that we chose this. It won't be perfect, not all the time.
This isn't happily ever after.
It's so much more than that.”
― The One
This isn't happily ever after.
It's so much more than that.”
― The One
“Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.”
― Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
― Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
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