“I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

“My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.”

“Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.”

“Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.”

“Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.”

“In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I could not think without writing.”

“One day, I decided to help wherever I could & it was almost like magic, because I was exactly what the world needed everywhere I went.”

“There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when ...”

“Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.”