Jennifer Shahade quotes
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“If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be integrated. But a lot of women feel alienated at these mixed events, so it's positive to have occasional all women's events.”
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“Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.”
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“Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win.”
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“I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.”
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“Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I'm interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male dominated fields.”
-- Jennifer ShahadeSource : "Jennifer Shahade, Author, Chess Bitch, U.S. Women's Chess Champion 2002, 2004". Interview with Rachel Kramer Bussel, gothamist.com. December 28, 2006.
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“Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.”
-- Jennifer ShahadeSource : "The strongest native-born American woman". en.chessbase.com. August 3, 2003.
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“Great necessities call out great virtues.”
Source : Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
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“God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.”
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“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
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