"Women get the attention when we get into the men’s arena, and that’s sad." ― Billie Jean King Topic(s): Women More From Billie Jean King "Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis." "If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that." "Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity." More In Women "While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too."― Rita Mae Brown "Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries."― Annie Lennox "As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women’s failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won’t go away."― Dee Dee Myers