“It meant that I and every other woman I knew had been living a lie, and all the doctors who treated us and the experts who studied us were perpetuating that lie, and our homes and schools and churches and politics and professions were built around that lie," she (Betty Friedan) wrote. "If women were really people -- no more, no less -- then all the things that kept them from being full people in our society would have to be changed. And women, once they broke through the feminine mystique and took themselves seriously as people, would see their place on a false pedestal, even their glorification as sexual objects, for the putdown it was.”
― Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team
― Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team
“...during film sessions..."He would embarrass you deliberatley... run the play you messed up back and forth, back and forth for everyone in the room to see 100 times.”
― Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
― Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
“as a player you win once but when you win as a coach, you win...forty times.”
― Gridiron Underground: Black American Journeys in Canadian Football
― Gridiron Underground: Black American Journeys in Canadian Football
“The vast majority - 98.4 percent - of college football players in the U.S. with aspirations to play professional football never get that opportunity.”
― Gridiron Underground: Black American Journeys in Canadian Football
― Gridiron Underground: Black American Journeys in Canadian Football
“The elders constantly reminded Sacred Feathers of the need to make a vision quest -- to obtain, through fasting, a guardian spirit to guide and protect them through life. Animals, birds, and fish could speak with them and, in a dream or vision, give their power.”
― Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians
― Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians
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