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

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 with time.

I married the right guy later in life. Roger Robinson is just so wonderful but I was 40 and by that time he had been married and had his family. I realized how dangerous children could truly be. So I feel maternal when I see those women run.

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

A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era."

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

Jock Semple said "Oh the women ran well today the Boston Marathon and they deserve to be in the race." I had to laugh. I said "Well it took us five years but anyway, we're here." It pretty much changed everything.