TIME

Billie Jean King

When I was 12 years old, I had my epiphany. I had started playing tournaments to get rankings in Southern California. Everybody who played wore white shoes and white socks, white clothes, played with white balls, and everybody that played was white. And I remember saying, “Where’s everybody else?” I just knew if I ever could become No. 1, I would champion equality the rest

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from TIME

TIME3 min read
Darren Walker
You just announced you’re leaving the foundation, at what you say is a critical time in its history. What do you mean by that? If you are a philanthropy committed to the idea that democracy is the best form of government, and that the full participat
TIME17 min read
Kid Of The Year
Heman Bekele whipped up the most dangerous of what he called his “potions” when he was just over 7 years old. He’d been conducting his own science experiments for about three years by that point, mixing up whatever he could get his hands on at home a
TIME7 min read
Captains Of Industry Set Sail
It was perhaps inevitable that the cast of Industry would find themselves on a yacht. The show, which follows a group of Gen Z bankers working in the City, London’s Wall Street, focuses as much on its characters taking designer drugs in Berlin clubs

Related Books & Audiobooks