A Quote by Michelle Kwan

I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother - people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way.

Michelle Kwan

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Michelle Kwan
American - Athlete
Born: July 7, 1980

I was certainly a kid who believed he could make a difference in the world. I was, as a young person, cooking up plans. My hero is Billie Jean King, and the thing that I find so impressive about Billie Jean is that she took something as banal as playing tennis and used it to change the world. She really did.

Peter Paige

Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.

Katrina Adams

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

Serena Williams

When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie would show up and say, 'What about this?' Neither one of us had seen it.

Martina Navratilova

You have ... been told that science grows like an organism. You have been told that, if we today see further than our predecessors, it is only because we stand on their shoulders. But this [Nobel Prize Presentation] is an occasion on which I should prefer to remember, not the giants upon whose shoulders we stood, but the friends with whom we stood arm in arm ... colleagues in so much of my work.

Peter Medawar

Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

Sally Ride

Everything Bill Clinton has done is fair game. He's a former president. I just don't think that is the most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton, because while all that was going on there were a lot of women who felt for whatever reason great sympathy for Hillary Clinton. Look, if my husband were doing that, I would have left him. I would not have behaved the way Hillary Clinton did.

Carly Fiorina

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton

The most exciting match I ever played was the 1974 US Open final against Billie Jean King.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

The New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, they turned around and talked about the way Hillary Clinton and cohorts always went after these women [of Bill Clinton].

Kellyanne Conway

People will say, 'Who are your role models, and who are your pioneers?' And the first person that comes to my mind is Billie Jean King because we didn't have women that we could watch when I was growing up.

Julie Foudy

What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

If she [Hillary Clinton] had not stood by the guy at any point, that might have meant the end of his [Bill Clinton's] career.