Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.
Venus WilliamsRead
The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
Interpretation
Women can achieve anything they aspire to without limitations.
Venus Williams emphasizes the idea that women and girls should not feel restricted by societal norms or expectations, suggesting that they can break through barriers and achieve their goals. The metaphor of a 'glass ceiling' represents invisible obstacles that prevent women from reaching high positions or success, and Williams' message encourages empowerment and belief in one's potential.
In practice
In a women's leadership conference to inspire attendees.
Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.
I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.
I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
I have always said that after sport, I wanted a life, I wanted an opportunity, I wanted to be able to do something. And if something happens - the economy falls out or the dollar is worthless, anything could happen - you have to be ready to work. And I'm ready.
If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.
Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.
Men are trained to like this version of womanhood, and when someone comes along smashing the table and messing up the party, it's a bit like, 'Get out; why are you disturbing the peace?'
There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
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