Kathrine Quotes & Sayings

I get to make my own quotes now? — Kathrine Kautzman

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 boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations. — Kathrine Switzer

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around. — Georges St-Pierre

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 changed their lives. They feel they can do anything. — Kathrine Switzer

Look, lady, we're not going to go all HUNGER GAMES on each other. Isn't going to happen. — Rick Riordan

I secretly went to auditions, to open calls. I was ashamed. Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends were not that supportive. — Kathrine Narducci

Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel. — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity. — Kathrine Switzer

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat. — Leo Ornstein

Life is for participating, not for spectating. — Kathrine Switzer

A poet never feels useful. — May Sarton

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by
you can't run and stay mad! — Kathrine Switzer

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer

You don't have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don't have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it. — Jason Mraz

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout — Kathrine Switzer

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage. — Kathrine Switzer

I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Just as women fought for the vote, and that very achievement compels us to the polling stations, so women have fought for the right to exercise and participate in sport, and we cannot throw that away. From the women of ancient Greece putting their lives on the line just by watching sport, and the women in Iran who continue to risk imprisonment today by doing the same, to the likes of Kathrine Switzer who campaigned for women to be allowed to run any distance they liked, or Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand who demand the right to participate in sport as women, without being told what their labia should look like. We — Anna Kessel

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck. — Kathrine Narducci

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that — Kathrine Switzer

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. — Robert Louis Stevenson