Good for a Girl Quotes

“This isn't the ending I dreamed of, sure. But when you realize failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn't match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn't what you hoped for, or what others expected.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“You have a brand whether you cultivate it or not,” he explained, while opening a document to take notes. “You’re in the arena. People are watching. Having clarity around who you are, what you stand for, and how you want to be understood is not egotistical. It’s a chance to take stock of things and be intentional.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“There’s so much more, but really it all begins with a willingness to see women as human beings worthy of thriving. The problems women and girls face need to be seen as human issues that everyone takes responsibility for changing.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“I wanted sport to bring them closer to themselves, not further away.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“Being a whole person was powerful, but the economics of sports (defined and maintained by men) didn’t leave much space for that. Contracts penalized the rocky road inherent to life, especially the one commonly traveled by women.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“But instead of asking why, we shake our heads in frustration and continue to blame the women. These behaviors look like personal choices, but they are choices made within a particular sporting environment that women had to fight to get access to but did not get a chance to create.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“Women made great men possible. What made great women possible? Avoiding the vortex of a man’s ambition? Being alone?”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“But when you realize failing doesn’t make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“Title IX opened a door fifty years ago that can never be closed again, but equality doesn’t end at the equal right to play. True equality in sports, like any other industry, requires rebuilding the systems so there’s an equal chance to thrive. I’m just one person telling a story to bring an embodied experience of the female athlete to life. I can’t create policy or NCAA best practices, or medical guidelines, but I have some ideas of where to start. We need policies like those created around concussions that specifically protect the health of the female body in sport. We need to create a formal certification to work with female athletes that mandates education on female physiology, puberty, breast development, menstrual health, and the female performance wave.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“She must have known what she planned to do, the risk she was going to take. 'Where did that calm come from?' I had wondered at the time. Now I knew. It was a resolve to execute the plan without attachment to the result. It was valuing guts more than the win”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“Anyone and everyone working with female athletes must be able to talk about puberty and periods. They are a fact, an embodied experience shaping the daily lives of half the squad. And frankly, the stakes are too high not to.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“…my whole life I had been engaging in the hard work of learning to run for myself, not for others. I had been learning how to return to myself, again and again, in a world full of forces that consistently pull us away. I wanted to hold tight to that knowledge; even more strongly, I wanted to pass it on. I stood up from the track and began to run home.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“it all begins with a willingness to see women as human beings worthy of thriving. The problems women and girls face need to be seen as human issues that everyone takes responsibility for changing.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“It takes guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn’t match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn’t what you hoped for, or what others expected. There was value in that.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

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― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

“guts to put yourself out there when your body doesn’t match the ideal, and to keep doing your best when your best isn’t what you hoped for, or what others expected. There was value in that. I wish teams celebrated this more.”
― Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World