Women is out because she's getting in her daily dose of empowerment, freedom and fearlessness. She has put on her freedom wings for 20 minutes or two hours. That's going to make her whole day right and her whole future hold up and seem entirely possible. The sense of her not having any limits, or any restrictions, to me, is so liberating. She doesn't have to prove anything.

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.

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

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

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.

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.

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.