World Single Distance Championships For Women

Famous quotes containing the words world, single, distance and/or women:

“Crows are black the world over.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I would strenuously urge a single term of six years.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“No doubt, the short distance to which you can see in the woods, and the general twilight, would at length react on the inhabitants, and make them savages. The lakes also reveal the mountains, and give ample scope and range to our thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)