Best quotes by Billie Jean King on Women

Checkout quotes by Billie Jean King on Women

  • Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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  • I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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  • In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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  • Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
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  • The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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  • When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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  • Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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  • In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
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  • When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
    - Billie Jean King