When I forgave Jock Semple on Heartbreak Hill, I also got really cross with women. I couldn't understand why they didn't get it, why they didn't know….

Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big pr….

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 abl….

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

Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967..

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

At the finish line of the 1967 Boston Marathon, one crabby journalist said it was just a one-off deal and women weren't going to run. Only a 20-year-….

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

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 re….

I forgave Jock Semple his action on Boston race just around the time I got to Heartbreak Hill. I had 24 miles to go and you cannot run 24 miles and s….

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….

When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20….

Most people don't know this but over the course of time, the official of the race in 1967 in Boston, who attacked me Jock Semple and I became very go….

Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I knew he was an over-stressed race direct….

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….

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 y….

Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and planted a big kiss on my cheek. He said in ….

When I got the women's marathon into the Olympics and we had races all over the world I thought, 'That's great, now we're heading towards total equal….

I organized this global series of races. The data from those races, along with the tremendous amount of lobbying and meetings with federations, convi….

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of ….

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..