Barbara McVeigh’s Reviews > Black tights: Women, sport and sexuality > Status Update

Brotherly love.

Justine Blainey, hero.

"She was refused registration because she was a girl. Her case seems to me therefore to be on exactly the same footing under the section as the case of a boy denied registration by ORSA because he is black."

It is an incredibly powerful statement when women take to the streets in their running shoes...No one tries to hide her wrinkles or fix her hair.

As recently as 1967, women were barred from running in the Boston Marathon.

[W]omen who run are engaging in a public act of freedom.

People are meant to move...It's sad that kids are being sold inactive lifestyles -- Nintendo, TV, sitting in school all day.

When daughters jump into the world, they are metaphorically turning their backs on everything their mothers represent. Ans the mother who watches her daughter waltz off with only vague thoughts of marriage & children can't help thinking, "Are you telling me that my life of sacrifice & devotion was not living at all?"