Renee

“to be ignorant of “either letters or swimming,” Plato declared, was to lack a proper education.”
― Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

“In a complicated place that was so reliant on hierarchy and social order, Jay began to think hard about the way that swimming stripped people down to their bare elements. “You lose even more of your normal identity than if you got dressed for tennis, for example. You’re just skin, cap, goggles,” he says. “The outfits for swimming are at the bare minimum—their other identities aren’t visible. With two military people, you can’t tell who’s the officer and who’s the enlisted man.”
― Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

“Though class lines had been erased at the pool, race lines hardened even further, resulting in riots and racial segregation.”
― Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim

“Swimming has always been a means of escape: physical, spiritual, mental. And if that’s true, then what better place is there for a swim team than a war zone?”
― Bonnie Tsui, Why We Swim