There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

If I die... I'd be so mad at myself that I didn't explore that side of me.

I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad. [But] if I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily. And I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

I just barely got through school. The problem was a learning disability, at a time when there was no where to get help.

Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.