Barbara McVeigh’s Reviews > Black tights: Women, sport and sexuality > Status Update
Barbara McVeigh
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"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."
— Jun 13, 2012 06:00AM
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Barbara McVeigh
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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.
— Jun 12, 2012 11:00AM
Barbara McVeigh
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As recently as 1967, women were barred from running in the Boston Marathon.
— Jun 12, 2012 10:24AM
Barbara McVeigh
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[W]omen who run are engaging in a public act of freedom.
— Jun 12, 2012 09:26AM
Barbara McVeigh
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People are meant to move...It's sad that kids are being sold inactive lifestyles -- Nintendo, TV, sitting in school all day.
— Jun 12, 2012 08:53AM
Barbara McVeigh
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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?"
— Jun 12, 2012 03:26AM
