Imagine Quote by Kathrine Switzer Download Open image “Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.” — Kathrine Switzer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagine Marathon Running Running A Marathon Running marathon
At the finish line of the 1967 Boston Marathon, one crabby journalist said it was just a one-off deal and women weren't going to… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
“Imagine that a career is like a marathon—a long, grueling, and ultimately rewarding endeavor. Now imagine a marathon where both men and women arrive… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Women's marathoning was not added as an Olympic medal event until 1984 due to unfounded and bizarre concerns among Olympic organizers about women's ability… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
1967 race in Boston changed not just my life, but millions of women's lives. There are also things that, when you get older, resonate more. — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
“For one thing, more and more women are running, outnumbering men in more and more marathons and half-marathons.” — Hal Higdon Copy Share Image
There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman. — Lisa Guerrero Copy Share Image
It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office. — Mazie Hirono Copy Share Image
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage. — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad! — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
Most people don't know this but over the course of time, the official of the race in 1967 in Boston, who attacked me Jock… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I organized this global series of races. The data from those races, along with the tremendous amount of lobbying and meetings with federations, convinced… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I don't have any kids of my own, quite by choice. There are two reasons for that. One, I had a sense of obligation… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
When I forgave Jock Semple on Heartbreak Hill, I also got really cross with women. I couldn't understand why they didn't get it, why… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. — Eliza Bisbee Duffey Copy Share Image
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear.… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
